Bag Lunch Book Group
All members of the Saint Anselm College community are invited to attend a book discussion of "Our Nig, Or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black" by Harriet E. Wilson.
Copies of the book will be available to borrow at the Circulation Desk by January 22, 2025.
Date: Friday, February 21, 2025
Time: 12:30 - 1:20 p.m.
Location: Library Classroom, upper level of Geisel.
Attendees are welcome to bring their lunches to the book group meeting.
Description:
"Our Nig is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father. Frado becomes the servant of the Bellmonts, a lower-middle-class white family in the free North, while slavery is still legal in the South, and suffers numerous abuses in their household. Frado's story is a tragic one; having left the Bellmonts, she eventually marries a black fugitive slave, who later abandons her" (GoodReads.com).
Published in 1859, this book is considered to be one of the first books written by an African American woman to be published in the United States (Wikipedia). Born in Milton, Harriet E. Wilson was also a native New Hampshirite (Wikipedia).