num_pages: 99
description: Generally recognized as the first African American novel published in the United States, Our Nig offers a harrowing portrait of the sadistic maltreatment of Alfrado, a young, African American female working as a bond servant.
language: English
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 By "Our Nig"
titlecomplete: 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" (Trent Editions)
genres: Historical, Literature, American, School, Classics, African American, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Race
ratings_count: 2939
publisher: Nottingham Trent Univ