For my final analysis article I chose the novel "Our Negro...." or "Sketches from the life of a black free, In a two-story White House, to the north." For starters there is an ongoing debate about whether the book should be classified as a novel or an autobiographical story. At first I was on the side of the reading being a novel, but after reading Harriet Wilson's short story I'm cross-eyed about what she meant the book to be. I ultimately concluded that it was written as a novel that Wilson drew from his own life experiences to tell the story of a young mulatto girl named Frado. Frado, whose story is one of preservation, shows a constant struggle to survive and faces torturous consciences every day under the indentured servitude of his masters, the Bellmont family. A number of issues worthy of discussion emerge in the novel. The first was the constant theme of abandonment and the education/nature aspect. Like Wilson, Frado is abandoned by his mother Mag, left on a farm in the hope that the family would take her in. There, after the numerous deaths accumulated in the novel, Frado is constantly subjected to abuse by Mrs. B and her daughter Mary. There are also three maternal figures presented in the Mag novel, Mrs. Bellmont and Aunt Abbey (Nab). Although Mag and Mrs. B are perceived as the missing maternal figures, they allow Frado to come of age regardless as he embarks on a journey to womanhood seemingly alone if it were not for Aunt Abbey. Towards the middle of the novel, Aunt Abby is announced as the caring mother figure in Frado's life. Presentation of religion as a guide for Frado. In turn Frado turns to his biblical studies as a substitute for the maternal figure, the mother being usually the... center of the card ......t more with delicacies of future abandonment if Frado were to ever leave her, she would not was allowed to return. Even after the research aspect of writing this article, I still can't decide whether to accept the book and an autobiography or a novel. Because of Harriet Wilson's short story, there are similar instances where Frado and Wilson's lives intersect. Although I don't know if the story was about her or not. Wilson succeeded in the task of showing the horrific side of racism and the deceit of those who did not want to be seen as anything other than benevolent and sympathetic occupiers of the North. It introduces the reader to the free black and the dominance of white culture. With a twist in which he also indicates that gray shadow between the two who are the characters who showed Frado a sort of remorse and/or compassion towards his situation..