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Garies and Their Friends

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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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Authors Frank J. Webb
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 19.12.1997
 
EAN 9780801855979
ISBN 978-0-8018-5597-9
No. of pages 416
Series Race in the Americas
Race in the Americas
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies

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