Our Nig Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

Summary: 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. [read more]