The Garies and their friends
By: by Frank J. Webb ; with an introductory preface by Harriet B. Stowe ; and a new introduction to the 1997 edition by Robert Reid-Pharr.
Edition: Johns Hopkins Paperbacks ed.
Series: Race in the Americas
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: African American families -- Fiction.; Racially mixed people -- Fiction.; African Americans -- Fiction.; Race relations -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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: Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published: London ; New York : G. Routledge & Co., 1857.