Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson David J. Schwartz where she will lose her

where she will lose her heart

and thick pads of writing paper

at first she despairs—the Gauntlet is always a bloodbath for the impoverished debtors

Now everything's changed

Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson David J. Schwartz where she will lose herWith 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