[PDF.32fp] The Garies and Their Friends (Broadview Editions)

The Garies and Their Friends (Broadview Editions)

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 | #363226 in Books |  2016-04-18 | Original language:English |  8.50 x.61 x5.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 416 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A MUST READ|By Read-A-Lot|The first thing that strikes me is the year of publication. 1857. To have dealt with racism in the North, in the manner that Frank Webb does is startling. This is not a book about slavery. It is a novel centered in Philadelphia, PA in the 1850's. Frank Webb gives us a look at what life would have been like for free Blacks in the North. The Garies consi| || “This is an outstanding edition of Webb’s powerful (and still relatively neglected) novel about the struggles of the free black community in pre-Civil War Philadelphia. The editors make the bold decision to use as their source text the ‘Che

Unjustly overlooked in its own time, Frank J. Webb’s novel of pre-Civil War Philadelphia weaves together action, humor, and social commentary. The Garies and Their Friends tells the story of two families struggling for different sorts of respectability: the Garies, a well-to-do interracial couple who relocate to Philadelphia from the plantation South in order to legalize their marriage, and their friends the Ellises, free black Philadelphians hoping to...

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