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  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Epigraph
  4. Preface
  5. Our Nig
    1. I: Mag Smith, My Mother
    2. II: My Father’s Death
    3. III: A New Home for Me
    4. IV: A Friend for Nig
    5. V: Departures
    6. VI: Varieties
    7. VII: Spiritual Condition of Nig
    8. VIII: Visitor and Departure
    9. IX: Death
    10. X: Perplexities.—Another Death
    11. XI: Marriage Again
    12. XII: The Winding Up of the Matter
  6. Appendix
  7. Colophon
  8. Uncopyright

Preface

In offering to the public the following pages, the writer confesses her inability to minister to the refined and cultivated, the pleasure supplied by abler pens. It is not for such these crude narrations appear. Deserted by kindred, disabled by failing health, I am forced to some experiment which shall aid me in maintaining myself and child without extinguishing this feeble life. I would not from these motives even palliate slavery at the South, by disclosures of its appurtenances North. My mistress was wholly imbued with southern principles. I do not pretend to divulge every transaction in my own life, which the unprejudiced would declare unfavorable in comparison with treatment of legal bondmen; I have purposely omitted what would most provoke shame in our good anti-slavery friends at home.

My humble position and frank confession of errors will, I hope, shield me from severe criticism. Indeed, defects are so apparent it requires no skilful hand to expose them.

I sincerely appeal to my colored brethren universally for patronage, hoping they will not condemn this attempt of their sister to be erudite, but rally around me a faithful band of supporters and defenders.

H. E. W.

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