Our Nig

Our Nig, Or, Sketches From the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House is a classic African American history text by Harriet E. Wilson that deals the history of slavery in America. IN offering to the public the following slave story, the writer confesses her inability to minister to the refined and culti- vated, the pleasure supplied by abler pens. It is not for such these crude narrations appear. Deserted by kindred, disabled by failing health, I am forced to some experiment which...