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…
Author: Frank J. Webb · Original publisher: G. Routledge and Company (London, 1857)
Tier 1 — Full text hosted on this page. Public domain: first published 1857; full text freely available at Project Gutenberg. The full text is held in fulltexts/ as `3945-the-garies-and-their-friends.txt` (see fulltexts/INDEX.md).
