"A Gentleman of Superior Cultivation and Refinement": Recovering the Biography of Frank J. Webb.
From: African American Review
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Date: 6/22/2001
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Author: Gardner, Eric
The 1997 reissue of Frank J. Webb's 1857 novel of free Black life in antebellum Philadelphia, The Garies and Their Friends, may finally lead to the consideration--both in our scholarship and our classrooms--that the book and its author rightly deserve. As only the second novel published by a Black American, The Garies can tell us much about how antebellum Black authors "talked back" to other texts that foreground race (Uncle Tom's Cabin looms large on this list), experimented with ...
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