{"product_id":"the-garies-and-their-friends-9780801855979","title":"The Garies and Their Friends","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOriginally published in London in 1857, \u003ci\u003eThe Garies and Their Friends\u003c\/i\u003e was the second novel published by an African American and the first to chronicle the experience of free blacks in the pre-Civil War northeast. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this novel set in antebellum America, the Garies--a white southerner, his mulatto slave-turned-wife, and their two children--have moved to Philadelphia from Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in London in 1857, \u003ci\u003eThe Garies and Their Friends\u003c\/i\u003e was 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It is remarkable that, even as the study of African American literature and culture has become central to any number of projects within American intellectual life, so little attention has been given a work as significant as Frank J. Webb's \u003ci\u003eThe Garies and Their Friends\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--from the 1997 introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank J. Webb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.66h x 6.00w x 1.01d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801855979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank J. Webb, \u003c\/b\u003e an African American born and raised in antebellum Philadelphia, worked during the late 1820s for \u003ci\u003eFreedom's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, the first newspaper published by African Americans, and was a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Era: A Colored American National Journal\u003c\/i\u003e in the early 1870s.\u003cb\u003e Robert Reid-Pharr \u003c\/b\u003eis an assistant professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44181787115635,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":60.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_d064d64b-0575-4b7d-b0d6-b9ad1b10cecc.jpg?v=1766931734","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-garies-and-their-friends-9780801855979","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}