OUR NIG 


Harriet E. Wilson 


HARRIET E. WILSON 


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Sketches ar the Life of a Freg Black 


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Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a 
Free Black, In A Two-Story White House 


by Harriet E. Wilson (1825-1900) 


The first novel published (in 1859) by an African-American in 
the United States, Our Nig tells the story of Frado, a mulatto 
girl abandoned by her white mother and raised in the home of 
the Bellmonts. While Mr. Bellmont is kind, Mrs. Bellmont and 
her eldest daughter brutalize Frado for years, until her health 
begins to fail. Our Nig was written by a former indentured 
servant in Massachusetts, and is uniquely a story about 
racism in the North before the Civil War. 


Total running time: 2:39:12 


Read by Bridget Gaige 


acoustical liberation of books 
in the public domain 


Cover design: Kathryn Delaney 
Cover illustration: Anne Marguerite Hyde 
de Neuville, Mulatto Girl (before 1849) 





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