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9780142437773
Our Nig is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father. Frado becomes the servant of the Bellmonts, a lower-middle-class white family in the free North, while slavery is still legal in the South, and suffers numerous abuses in their household. Frado's story is a tragic o≠ having left the Bellmonts, she eventually marries a black fugitive slave, who later abandons her.Wilson, Harriet E. is the author of 'Our Nig Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black', published 2004 under ISBN 9780142437773 and ISBN 0142437778.
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