nigger heaven

plural nigger heavens

1. USderogatoryoffensiveslangA place or a circumstance regarded by black people to be pleasant or enjoyable.
2. historicaloffensivedated (chiefly 1870s)The peanut gallery in a theater.

   It took close figuring to do anything but live that first year and yet we pushed our way with the crowd into the nigger heavens and saw most of the good shows. I had never been to the theatre before and I liked it.

   1911, William Carleton?, One Way Out: A Middle-Class New-Englander Emigrates to America, Small, Maynard & Company, page 8

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   The golden mean of the dark wayfarer's way between black Scylla and white Charybdis, I have traveled; subdued ifs in the way; from vile-canaille balconies and nigger heavens, seen day beasts and night beasts of prey in the disemboweling pits of Europe and America, in the death-worming bowels of Asia and Africa; and, although a Dumb Ox (like young Aquinas), I have not forgot the rainbows and the olive leaves against the orient sky.

   1965, Melvin Beaunorus Tolson, Harlem Gallery, volume 1, Twayne, page 53