Our Nig

by Harriet E. Wilson

OUR NIG;

 

OR

 

Sketches from the Life of a free Black

 

IN A TWO-STORY WHITE HOUSE, NORTH.

 

SHOWING THAT SLAVERY'S SHADOWS FALL EVEN THERE.

 

BY "OUR NIG."

 

"I know
That care has iron crowns for many brows;
That Calvaries are everywhere, whereon
Virtue is crucified, and nails and spears
Draw guiltless blood; that sorrow sits and drinks
At sweetest hearts, till all their life is dry;
That gentle spirits on the rack of pain
Grow faint or fierce, and pray and curse by turns;
That hell's temptations, clad in heavenly guise
And armed with might, lie evermore in wait
Along life's path, giving assault to all."—Holland.

 

BOSTON:
PRINTED BY GEO. C. RAND & AVERY.
1859.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859,

By MRS. H. E. WILSON,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

Chapters (not listed in original)

• Preface
• Chapter One: Mag Smith, My Mother
• Chapter Two: My Father's Death
• Chapter Three: A New Home For Me
• Chapter Four: A Friend For Nig
• Chapter Five: Departures
• Chapter Six: Varieties
• Chapter Seven: Spiritual Condition of Nig
• Chapter Eight: Visitor and Departure
• Chapter Nine: Death
• Chapter Ten: Perplexities--Another Death
• Chapter Eleven: Marriage Again
• Chapter Twelve: The Winding Up of the Matter
• Appendix