Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) a black neighbourhood; also attrib.

1841		Jefferson Republican (Stroudsburg, PA) 15 Sept. 3/4: A large concourse of people [...] assembled [...] in the immediate vicinity of the ‘Five Points’ of this city, or as it is called here, ‘Nigger-town’.
1859		Harper’s Mag. Sept. 572/2: The aforesaid battery had been consummated at a doggery at Niggerville, now called Washington [in the State of Louisiana] near the town of Opelousas.
1860		H.R. Helper Impending Crisis of the South 18: Like all other niggervilles in our disreputable part of the confederacy, the commercial emporium of South Carolina is sick and impoverished [DA].
1868		Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 9 Aug. 1/8: A party of ten men, armed with shotguns, entered Nigger-town on the suburbs of Lexington.
1878		Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, LA) 6 Feb. 3/1: That portion of lower Third street, popularly known as ‘Niggerville’.
1884		Fireman’s Journal 16 Aug. 131/2: Mr. Tarbell [...] was, in his younger days, one of the ‘b’hoys’ you read about [...] He was a member of Frank Whitney’s famous crowd that made notorious old ‘Hero No. 6’ the terror of ‘Nigger Hill.’.
1886		I.D. Hardy Oranges and Alligators 111: Almost every settlement [...] has its ‘coloured quarter,’ or ‘Nigger-town,’ as it is more often called by the white inhabitants.
1897		N.Y. Tribune 12 Dec. 13/4: With negroes craps may be described as a racial pastime. A town without craps [...] is consequently not a good ‘nigger town’.
1905		Wkly Messenger (St Martinsville, LA) 1 Apr. 1/2: If the sun should rise some morning at 2.30 it would find half the white population of Jennings in nigger town.
1912		University Missourian (Columbia, MO) 11 Nov. 2/2: Columbia begins in the north with nigger town and ends with the University in the south.
1928		C. McKay Home to Harlem 285: It’s the same ole life everywhere [...] In white man’s town or nigger town.
1939		T. Wolfe Web and the Rock 27: To call me forth [...] to sweat my way through Niggertown in the dreary torpor of the afternoon.
1949		I. Shulman Cry Tough! 13: In any of the hundreds of slum neighborhoods: in Jewtown, Micktown, Woptown, Hunkytown, Niggertown.
1954		A. Petry Narrows 341: What was she doin’ on the dock in Niggertown, three in the mornin’.
1959		W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 197: That yaller girl used to work in Marylou’s Hair Straightening and Skin Bleach Parlor over in Nigga town.
1962		P. Crump Burn, Killer, Burn! 10: The line which divides Niggerville from Beverly Hills.
1964		J. Baldwin Blues for Mister Charlie 87: A lot of the other kids in school used to drive over to niggertown at night to try and find black women.
1970		J. Conaway Big Easy 144: ‘Git out or go with me,’ the cabbie told Comiski. ‘I ain’t hanging round Niggertown this afternoon.’.
1974		(con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 7: His way home lay up an unnamed niggertown alley.
1981		J. Lansdale Act of Love (1995) 22: Just cruise on out to Niggertown and ride up and down.
1986–7		Maledicta IX 53: Nigger Hill; Nigger Quarters; Nigger Section; Nigger Town n [C] Black community within an urban area.
1992		D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 148: As remote as the days of ‘Nigger Hill’ when Irish gangs lay in wait to attack free blacks out walking with their wives.
1996		P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 23: A hooded mob chasing him back to Niggertown.
2002		Indep. Rev. 20 Aug. 4: A shanty area of tenements and trailer homes officially known as the Sunset Addition but popularly referred to by white folks as ‘Niggertown’.
2002		J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 61: That tall white boy [...] that wanted to beat my head in for not knowing the route to ‘niggerville’.
2015		P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 281: The nefarious darkies have all the kids in Niggertown hooked up to IVs.