Nellie Brown, or, The jealous wife
Subtitle: with other sketches
By: Thomas Detter ; introduction by Frances Smith Foster.
Series: Blacks in the American West
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: African Americans -- Fiction; West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Nellie Brown; Jealous wife
Description: This collection includes a novella, two short stories, and six essays. The title story, the first novel written by an African American in the West, takes place in Virginia and addresses adultery and divorce, subjects considered radical and risque at that time.

Equally provocative are the "Other Sketches." These include two short stories: "The Octoroon Slave of Cuba," an alternative to "tragic mulatto" fiction, and "Uncle Joe," an African-American folk tale. The six personal essays, including "My Trip to Baltimore" and "Give the Negro a Chance are as compelling now as they were then in depicting the West after Reconstruction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xx-xxi).
Originally published: San Francisco : Cuddy & Hughes, printers, 1871.