TY - BOOK AU - Wilson,Harriet E. TI - Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, North: Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There AV - PS PY - 1996/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Autobiographical fiction KW - New England -- Fiction KW - African American women -- Fiction KW - Racism -- Fiction KW - African American women household employees -- Fiction KW - Free African Americans -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Nig; Release date is 1996-07-01; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White…" by Harriet E. Wilson is an autobiographical novel published in 1859. It tells the story of Frado, a mixed-race girl abandoned by her impoverished white mother to work as an indentured servant for the Bellmont family in the northern United States. There, she endures brutal treatment from Mrs. Bellmont while finding occasional kindness from other family members. The novel explores themes of racial prejudice, servitude, and survival in pre-Civil War America. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/584 ER -