Title: The Garies and their friends
First published: 1969
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."
Subjects: Fiction, Race relations, Racially mixed people, African American families, African Americans, Slavery, African americans, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, african american, general
Places: United States