The Garies and Their Friends
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."
Product Details
Price
$39.10
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publish Date
September 01, 1997
Pages
416
Dimensions
6.0 X 8.66 X 1.01 inches | 1.16 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780801855979
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About the Author
Frank J. Webb, an African American born and raised in antebellum Philadelphia, worked during the late 1820s for Freedom's Journal, the first newspaper published by African Americans, and was a regular contributor to The New Era: A Colored American National Journal in the early 1870s. Robert Reid-Pharr is an assistant professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University.
Reviews
That this American classic does not occupy a prominent place in the literary canon is not really a mystery, though it is a shame. Its subject is not the almost invisible flaw in a golden bowl carved from pristine crystal, but the visible fracture in our American ideal; its scarlet letter is the color of our skin.
--Jamaica Kincaid, O The Oprah Magazine
--Jamaica Kincaid, O The Oprah Magazine
