Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black Music his life is far from

his life is far from perfect

and—above all—what it means to come home

and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering

This book is an exploration of Black mental health in today’s world

the white neighbors

Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black Music his life is far fromWith 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 childs black father, who grows up as an