Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
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 / by "Our Nig."
Author
Wilson, Harriet E., 1825-1900
[Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
[First edition].
Published/Created
Boston : Printed by Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1859.
Description
140 pages ; 19 cm
Availability
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Special Collections - Rare Books
2017-0014N
Browse related items
Reading Room Request
Details
Subject(s)
Free African Americans
—
New England
—
Fiction
[Browse]
African American women household employees
—
New England
—
Fiction
[Browse]
African American women
—
New England
—
Biography
—
Fiction
[Browse]
Racism
—
New England
—
19th century
—
Fiction
[Browse]
Autobiographical fiction, American
—
19th century
[Browse]
New England
—
Race relations
—
19th century
—
Fiction
[Browse]
Homosaurus term(s)
Racism
[Browse]
Printer
Geo. C. Rand & Avery
[Browse]
Library of Congress genre(s)
Political fiction
[Browse]
Autobiographical fiction
[Browse]
Rare books genre
Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
—
Massachusetts
—
Boston
—
1859
[Browse]
Novels
[Browse]
Notes
First ed. of the first originally published novel by an African American woman.
Binding note
Ex copy: Bound in original dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine; in new mottled dark brown leather-covered clamshell box with stamped ornamental borders.
Place name(s)
United States Massachusetts Boston
Other title(s)
Our Nig
Sketches from the life of a free Black
LCCN
2005577156
OCLC
62421520
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information