Showing That Slavery’s Shadows Fall Even There By “Our Nig”. The first known novel by an African-American woman.
Our Nig
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Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House, North.
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A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &C., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, as Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.
But slavery brought about one result, and that the most difficult in the development of a race from savagery, and especially a tropical race, a race that has always been idle in the luxuriance of a nature that supplied its physical needs with little labor.
the midshipman and his men returned to the gun-boats and informed Lieut. Loomis of the answer he had received.
His eyes and his teeth are good points and he has been given a magnificent backbone as well as a beautiful voice, although he often permits these gifts to degenerate.
bought a home worth $800 or $1,000. A freedman, who was a slave until he was twenty-four years old, then had two lots worth $10,000, paid a tax of $40 and had 320 acres of land in Mercer County.
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