The cover page is adapted from The Gleaners, a painting completed in 1857 by Jean-François Millet. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Milletwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Our Nig
Chapters (14)
- Epigraph 0:00
- Preface 0:45
- I: Mag Smith, My Mother 2:10
- II: My Father’s Death 13:13
- III: A New Home for Me 24:24
- IV: A Friend for Nig 43:49
- V: Departures 58:31
- VI: Varieties 1:10:30
- VII: Spiritual Condition of Nig 1:24:08
- VIII: Visitor and Departure 1:30:12
- IX: Death 1:45:15
- X: Perplexities.—Another Death 1:58:42
- XI: Marriage Again 2:08:10
- XII: The Winding Up of the Matter 2:25:18
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Our Nig is an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson, her only published work. It was written not for pleasure, but to financially support the lives of the author and her sick child. It was long considered to be the first novel published by an African-American woman in the United States, but recent research has put that title into question.
Frado, born to a white mother and black father, is abandoned by her parents at age six and left to the Bellmont family. Though the Bellmonts live in the northern United States, the matriarch of the family, Mrs. Bellmont, loathes her for her dark skin color. She forces Frado (nicknamed “Nig”) to do the chores of the family under the threat of rawhide floggings and beatings. However, not everyone agrees with Mrs. Bellmont’s treatment of their new family member.