Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

Frado, a mixed-race girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of her black father, takes a job as a servant in the household of the Bellmonts, a lower middle-class white family in the North, only to encounter a world of abuse and abandonment, in a new edition of the first novel published by an African-American author in the U.S. Reprint.