How long does it take to read Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black in a Two-story White House, North?
showing that slavery's shadows fall even there
Harriet E. Wilson
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black in a Two-story White House, North by Harriet E. Wilson takes about 2 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 12 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1859. 120 pages, about 33,000 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 42 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"A fusion of two literary modes 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 child's black father, who grows up as an indentured servant to a white family in nineteenth-century Massachusetts."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fiction, African American women, Racism, Free African Americans, African American women domestics, Fiction, african american, historical
