The Garies and Their Friends - Webb, Frank J.
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The Garies and Their Friends was written in 1857 with a preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Frank Webb was a black man born in Philadelphia. Being one of the nearest free cities of any size to the slave territory, it was been a sanctuary for escaping fugitive or emancipated slaves. Mr. Garies was a slave-owning Southerner. His beloved wife was once a slave. They had two mixed-race children. To escape the racism of the South and the strict laws of Georgia prohibiting freedom for the children, the family moves to Philadelphia. They moved into a white neighborhood. Here they meet their remarkable…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The Garies and Their Friends was written in 1857 with a preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Frank Webb was a black man born in Philadelphia. Being one of the nearest free cities of any size to the slave territory, it was been a sanctuary for escaping fugitive or emancipated slaves. Mr. Garies was a slave-owning Southerner. His beloved wife was once a slave. They had two mixed-race children. To escape the racism of the South and the strict laws of Georgia prohibiting freedom for the children, the family moves to Philadelphia. They moved into a white neighborhood. Here they meet their remarkable "friends," including the middle-class and black Ellis family. They soon find out that Northern racism is different and equally dangerous. The wife next door is appalled by their new mixed-race neighbors, and her husband concocts a plot to rob the Garies of their wealth.
Autorenporträt
Francis Johnson Webb, an American author, poet, and essayist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His work, The Garies and Their Friends (1857), was the second novel published by an African American, and the first to depict the daily lives of free blacks in the North. Frank Webb was born in Philadelphia on March 21, 1828. He was the fifth and youngest child of Francis Webb (1788-1829) and Louisa Burr Webb. His maternal grandfather, former US Vice President Aaron Burr, was confirmed by DNA testing in 2018. Webb had one brother, John (1823-1904), and three sisters: Elizabeth (1818-1888), Ann (1820-1884), and Mary (1824-1826). Webb's mother, Louisa Charlotte Burr, was Aaron Burr's daughter. She and her brother John Pierre Burr, a well-known black activist in Philadelphia, were born to an East Indian woman who worked as a governess in Burr's family. Louisa Burr Webb spent the majority of her life working for Mrs. Elizabeth Powel Francis Fisher, a renowned Philadelphia society matron with strong ties to the city's oldest families and the mother of prominent Philadelphia businessman Joshua Francis Fisher. After Francis Webb died, Louisa remarried and changed her name to Louisa Darius.