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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From the depths of chattel slavery in Maryland, our author escaped into the caste-slavery of the north, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Here he found oppressi
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.
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.
Those who arrive at the seacoast, are in a state of desperation and despair. Their purchasers are so well aware of this, and so fearful of the consequences,
ONES–Go ahead! Shoot de piece. Must be bad news from de happy way you look.
SMITHERS–(warningly) Maybe it’s gettin’ time for you to resign — with that bloomin’ silver bullet, wot? (He finishes with a mocking grin.)
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