The story begins with the narrator introducing her mother, Mag Smith, who hasn't had much luck in life. She is a miserable indentured servant, barely earning money for her daily needs. Even early in her life she had a child out of wedlock; then unfortunately the child died. Mag had already been ostracized by her community, so she felt she couldn't go much further in her life. Jim was a kind-hearted man who cared a lot about Mag and was very persistent in trying to convince her to say yes to his marriage proposal. Either he truly loved her, or he mistook pity for love. Mag ended up marrying him, had two daughters, and overall, Jim provided her with a better life than she had before. He ended up dying, Mag was like that. The North seemed like the land promised to the slaves, those born into slavery only dreamed of living in the North where African Americans could be free but Fredo described his experience as terrible. 'Our Nig' takes away the pain of the elongated word 'nigger' and our together instead of possessive. As you read Frado's story, her being an indentured servant is just a fancier word for a slave. The north was no better than the south to some extent. In the book 'Our Nig' it is mentioned 'Because of its realistic examination of life among free blacks in the North. The central figure of Our Nig is undoubtedly based on Wilson herself, a working-class woman who set out to reveal from her actual experience in the North that "the shadow of slavery falls there too." (Wilson 472) People didn't realize that wherever they fled, America as a whole is also so corrupt, that they even described the North as having servants, but they were still treated badly. If you took away all the contextual clues of Frado living in the North, readers would think he lived in the South, that's how they treated Mrs. Bellmont and Mary