![]() ![]() ![]() This is a sad book, but Frado's cheerfulness and dignity will make you love her until the end. Her first and only work, 'Our Nig: Sketches From the Life From a Free Black' was published in 1859 and was considered lost until 1982 when rediscovered by the scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. She is left in the home of the Bellmonts, where she becomes an indentured servant. Forgotten for almost 120 years, rediscovered in the 1980s, and now republished with significant new information about the life of its author, Our Nig is a hallmark of American literature. Its main protagonist, Alfrado/ Frado/ 'Our Nig,' is deserted as a young child by her white mother follow ing the death of her African American father. She is abandoned by her own white mother in the house of the Bellmont's- where she is treated badly. Harriet Wilson (1825-1900) is the first female African American to publish a novel in North America. Our Nigs storyline is readily summarized. Download cover art Download CD case insert Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White Houseįrado is a colored girl, living in the USA a few years before the Civil War. ![]()
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