Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson is an autobiographical novel blending the genres of fiction and narrative slave memoir. The story chronicles the life of a free, mixed-race black woman of the North who experiences racism and abuse while working as an indentured servant for a white family.

Titlepage

Imprint

Epigraph

Preface

I: Mag Smith, My Mother

II: My Father’s Death

III: A New Home for Me

IV: A Friend for Nig

V: Departures

VI: Varieties

VII: Spiritual Condition of Nig

VIII: Visitor and Departure

IX: Death

X: Perplexities.—Another Death

XI: Marriage Again

XII: The Winding Up of the Matter

Our Nig

Appendix

Colophon

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fiction

autobiography