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Book/Printed Material 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 Our Nig / Sketches from the life of a free Black

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Title

  • 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

Other Title

  • Our Nig
  • Sketches from the life of a free Black

Names

  • Wilson, Harriet E., 1825-1900.
  • Geo. C. Rand & Avery, printer.

Created / Published

  • Boston : Printed by Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1859.

Headings

  • -  African American women household employees--Fiction
  • -  African American women--Fiction
  • -  Free African Americans--Fiction
  • -  Racism--Fiction
  • -  New England--Fiction

Genre

  • Autobiographical fiction
  • Political fiction

Notes

  • -  First ed. of the first published novel by an African American woman.
  • -  LC copy is a copyright deposit: Library of Congress copyright stamp on t.p., not numbered.
  • -  On label: 16 35/J

Medium

  • 140 p. ; 19 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PS3334.W39 .O9 1859

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2005577156

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Wilson, Harriet E, and Printer Geo. C. Rand & Avery. 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. Boston: Printed by Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1859. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2005577156/.

APA citation style:

Wilson, H. E. & Geo. C. Rand & Avery, P. (1859) 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. Boston: Printed by Geo. C. Rand & Avery. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2005577156/.

MLA citation style:

Wilson, Harriet E, and Printer Geo. C. Rand & Avery. 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. Boston: Printed by Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1859. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2005577156/>.