Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black Binding Type:Paperback with a new foreword

with a new foreword

The blue flowers Perry plants to honor a loved one gone too soon

As Givhan relays

Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo has built a practice synthesizing the ways that art both reflects and perpetuates the power of representation

“An absolutely indispensable anthology” (Booklist

Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black Binding Type:Paperback with a new forewordWith a New Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis A fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father, who grows up as an