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In 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.
Originally published in London in 1857, and never before available in paperback, The Gages and Their Friends 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".
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Michael Entler
reviewed The Garies and their Friends on June 21, 2019 The Garies and their Friends
2019-05 - The Garies and Their Friends. Frank J. Webb (Author) 1857. 320 Pages.
Another book in the Rosenbach's Philadelphia Gothic series … this book is a stunner. As relevant in many respects today as it was in its own time. In a country that prefers Black and White this book is all shades of gray. This book was not as popular as "Uncle Tom's Cabin" … this book was a contemporary of that book but it is not simplistic and it does not demonize the other. At the time for a white reader outside of the south this would have been a very uncomfortable book. In 2019 for many people this will still be an uncomfortable book. The themes this book explores through fiction are Blacks passing as whites, white privilege, white racism in the north, being a free black in the north in the 1850's. Intermingled stories of light skinned, dark skinned in the same family, whites who talk one way and act another. This book is fabulous … The writing is first rate. Just … read the book … you can get it free in the public domain.
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