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The Question and Answer section for Our Nig: Or, Sketches From the Life of a Free Black is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Chapter 4 - It is indicated to be a quote from Lord Byron, the British poet.
Chapter 10 - G. W. Cook
Chapter 12 - Solomon.
These could be an indication of education and of knowledge of the Bible.
It is actually set in the North, Antebellum New England, where things were not supposed to be as bad for blacks as they were in the South.
In his introduction to the 1983 edition of the novel, Gates claims that Our Nig is a major example of generic fusion in which a woman writer appropriated black male (the slave narrative) and white female (the sentimental novel) forms and revised...
