Fiction, Essays & Poetry Fiction, Essays, Poetry

Originally published in London in 1857, The Garies and Their Friends is the first novel 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 colored family."Webb, Frank J. is the author of 'Fiction, Essays & Poetry Fiction, Essays, Poetry', published 2005 under ISBN 9781592640997 and ISBN 1592640990.