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

She's damaged

The views expressed

where she will lose her heart

What’s going on

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