Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson David J. Schwartz but it shines a light

but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten

at first she despairs—the Gauntlet is always a bloodbath for the impoverished debtors

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An apparently happy wife tries to fathom her true self when she spends a night in a desert

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Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson David J. Schwartz but it shines a lightWith a New Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis A fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father, who grows up as an