PREFACE.

CHAPTER II. MY FATHER'S DEATH.

CHAPTER III. A NEW HOME FOR ME.

CHAPTER IV. A FRIEND FOR NIG.

CHAPTER V. DEPARTURES.

CHAPTER VI. VARIETIES.

CHAPTER VII. SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF NIG.

CHAPTER VIII. VISITOR AND DEPARTURE.

CHAPTER IX. DEATH.

CHAPTER X. PERPLEXITIES. ANOTHER DEATH.

CHAPTER XI. MARRIAGE AGAIN.

CHAPTER XII. THE WINDING UP OF THE MATTER.

APPENDIX.

Title: Our nig or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House, North.

Author: Harriet E. Wilson

Language: English

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."

Dedicated to Pauline Augusta Coleman Gates and Henry Louis Gates, Sr.

In Memory of Marguerite Elizabeth Howard Coleman, and Gertrude Helen
Redman Gates

                                      "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.