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.
The novel anticipates themes that were to become important in later African American fiction, includ.
Originally published in London in 1857, The Garies 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.
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