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.
€27.99
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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.
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.)
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.
the midshipman and his men returned to the gun-boats and informed Lieut. Loomis of the answer he had received.
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