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 is part of the Historical & Social Novels catalogue. The record identifies Wilson, Harriet E., 1825-1900 as the credited author and preserves a link to the source edition.

Edition profile

The extracted text contains approximately 28,740 words, corresponding to an estimated 125 minutes of reading, and is divided into 3 detectable text sections. These figures describe the downloaded text file rather than a printed pagination system.

The automated text analysis reports an average sentence length of about 16.9 words and a measured lexical-diversity value of 0.155. These measurements are descriptive reading aids, not literary ratings.

Catalog context

The source record associates this edition with the following subjects: Autobiographical fiction, New England -- Fiction, African American women -- Fiction, Racism -- Fiction, African American women household employees -- Fiction, Free African Americans -- Fiction. Catalog terms may reflect historical library practice and can be broader or narrower than a modern reader’s interpretation.

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