published in London in 1857, The Garies and Their Friends is the first novel 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 colored family." In addition to this new edition of The Garies, we are pleased to…
Author: Frank J. Webb · Original publisher: The Toby Press (New Milford, CT, 2004) (later/standard edition)
Tier 1 — Full text hosted on this page. Public domain: first published 1857 (The Garies and Their Friends; the volume's other verified Webb pieces are 1870 periodical publications); full text of the original work freely available at Project Gutenberg. (Our catalog record is a later edition.) The full text is held in fulltexts/ as `3825-fiction-essays-poetry-frank-j-webb.txt` (see fulltexts/INDEX.md).
