The Garies and their friends / by Frank J. Webb ; with an introductory preface by Harriet B. Stowe ; and a new introduction to the 1997 edition by Robert Reid-Pharr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Frank J.

Series:

Race in the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American families--Fiction.

African American families.

Multiracial people--United States--Fiction.

Multiracial people.

United States.

Race relations--United States--Fiction.

Race relations.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xx, 392 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Summary:

Originally published in London in 1857 and never before available in paperback, The Garies and Their Friends is the second novel published by an African American and the first to chronicle the experience of free blacks in the pre-Civil War northeast. The novel anticipates themes that were to become important in later African American fiction, including miscegenation and 'passing, ' and tells the story of the Garies and their friends, the Ellises, a 'highly respectable and industrious coloured family.'

Notes:

Originally published: London ; New York : G. Routledge & Co., 1857.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0801855977

OCLC:

35927706