id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6869 African-American literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 12964 1175 64 He labeled the work fiction and argued that it may be the first novel published by an African American.[21] Parallels between Wilson's narrative and her life have been discovered, leading some scholars to argue that the work should be considered autobiographical.[22] Despite these disagreements, Our Nig is a literary work which speaks to the difficult life of free blacks in the North who were indentured servants. There is some evidence that she read in the library of her master and was influenced by those works: the narrative was serialized and bears resemblances to Charles Dickens' style.[26]– Many critics are still attempting to decode its literary significance and establish its contributions to the study of early African-American literature. Jacobs' narrative occupies an important place in the history of African-American literature as it discloses through her firsthand example the specific injustices that black women suffered under slavery. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6869.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6869.txt