Showing That Slavery’s Shadows Fall Even There By “Our Nig”. The first known novel by an African-American woman.
Our Nig
€27.99
Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House, North.
€27.99
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out in de sun, fas’ ‘sleep, en den Brer Fox en Brer Rabbit, dey had a ‘spute ’bout how dey gwine ter fix de Hoss so he can’t git loose. One say one way en de yuther say n’er way,
unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above
ny one who doubts that there is a peculiar heel-tickling,
smile-provoking, joy-awakening, response-compelling charm in Ragtime needs only to hear a skilful perform
Den dey ‘buse him thoo an’ thoo;
Well, hit ‘s all de same.
Somep’n’s wrong erbout my lung,
An’ I ‘s glad hit ‘s so.
Doctah says ‘at I ‘ll die young,
Well, I wants to go!
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.
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