Our Nig #1

I believe it was lost to scholars because it was pushed from the limelight of society. Even though the characters were living in the North, the way the african-americans are treated and portrayed could have been detrimental to the North. They were known for being abolishionists and promoting freedom but this book makes it seem as if it is a false hope; african-americans were not technically considered slaves in the North, but they still were treated and forced to work in the same kind of terrible enviroment that they had to deal with in the South. This novel being hidden for 120 years makes you wonder how, if any, politics had to play with it disappearing. Or it could have been abolishionists who purposely had this covered up becuase what is written goes against everything they were working for and what the North was known for. Something like this could hurt the North's chances of gaining runaway slaves and promising them a better life. The way the novel describes the treatment of its characters make it seem like it is fiction but it is almost too cruel to be true. This novel was purposely hidden so the North would not suffer anything detrimental to its image of promoting freedom to runaway slaves.