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  • The Garies and Their Friends (Esprios Classics)
    Frank J. Webb / Frank JWebb
    Francis Johnson Webb (March 21, 1828 - c. 1894) was an American novelist, poet, and essayist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His novel, The Garies and Their Friends (1857), was the first novel by an Indian-African American to be published, and the first to portray the daily lives of free blacks in the North. As a young man, Frank Webb worked in Philadelphia’s vibrant community...
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  • The Garies and Their Friends
    Frank J. Webb / Frank JWebb
    The Garies and Their Friends (1857) is a novel by Frank J. Webb. Published at the height of the abolitionist movement, Webb’s novel was only the second in history by an African American writer. Although it is his only novel, The Garies and Their Friends is a testament to Webb’s skills as a writer and political thinker, a man who explored themes of racial passing and Northern ra...
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  • The Garies and Their Friends
    Frank J. Webb / Frank JWebb
    First published in 1857, 'The Garies and Their Friends' is a novel by American writer Frank J. Webb. Set in American in the antebellum South, the story revolves around a white southerner, his mulatto ex-slave wife, and their two children who have recently moved to Philadelphia from Georgia. The second novel published by an African American, represents one of the earliest chroni...
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  • The Garies and Their Friends
    Frank J. Webb / Frank JWebb
    The Garies and Their Friends (1857) is a novel by Frank J. Webb. Published at the height of the abolitionist movement, Webb’s novel was only the second in history by an African American writer. Although it is his only novel, The Garies and Their Friends is a testament to Webb’s skills as a writer and political thinker, a man who explored themes of racial passing and Northern ra...
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  • The Garies and Their Friends
    Frank J. Webb / Frank JWebb
    The Garies and Their Friends was written in 1857 with a preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Frank Webb was a black man born in Philadelphia. Being one of the nearest free cities of any size to the slave territory, it was been a sanctuary for escaping fugitive or emancipated slaves. Mr. Garies was a slave-owning Southerner. His beloved wife was once a slave. They had two mix...
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  • The Garies And Their Friends
    Frank J. Webb / Frank JWebb / Harvey J. O’Higgins / Harvey JO'higgins
    The Garies And Their Friends is a novel written by Frank J. Webb that was originally published in 1857. The book tells the story of two families, the Garies and the Ellises, who are both mixed-race and living in Philadelphia during the mid-19th century. The Garies are led by Mr. Garie, a wealthy white man who is married to a mixed-race woman named Emily. Together, they have two...
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