Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson David J. Schwartz and thick pads of writing

and thick pads of writing paper

where she will lose her heart

Now everything's changed

An apparently happy wife tries to fathom her true self when she spends a night in a desert

Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson David J. Schwartz and thick pads of writingWith 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