Our 👥⬅️ Nig. or, Sketches from the Life 🧬 of a Free 🆓 Black ⚫️

✅ 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Reprint of 1️⃣8️⃣5️⃣9️⃣ Edition. Full 🌝 facsimile of the original edition, not ❌️ reproduced with Optical 💽 Recognition software 👨‍💻️. Our 👥⬅️ Nig is an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson. Originally published in 1️⃣8️⃣5️⃣9️⃣, it was rediscovered in 1️⃣9️⃣8️⃣1️⃣ by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. It is considered one 1️⃣ of the first 🥇 novels published by an African-American ​🇺🇸​ woman 👤👩 in North ⬆️ America ​🇺🇸​. In the story of Frado, a spirited black ⚫️ girl 👧 who is abused and ➕ overworked as the indentured servant to a New 🆕 England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 family 👪️, Harriet E. Wilson tells 🗣️ a heartbreaking story of another aspect of race 🏃‍♂️ relations in the U.S., namely 📛 the life 🧬 of indentured servants in the Northern, abolitionist States of the Union. It follows the trials of Frado, a mulatto girl 👧 abandoned by her 👤👩⬅️ white ⚪️ mother 🤶 after the death 💀 of her 👤👩⬅️ black ⚫️ father 🎅. Frado grows 🌲⬆️ up ⬆️ as an indentured servant to a white ⚪️ family 👪️ in nineteenth century Massachusetts. The novel has been referred to as a fusion of two 2️⃣ literary modes 📳 of the nineteenth century; the sentimental novel and ➕ the slave narrative.

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