The Garies and Their Friends (1857)

ISBN-13: 9781554811519 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 416 str.

Frank Webb; W. H. Huntting Howell; Megan Walsh

Opis

Frank Webb's only novel is a vibrant and richly imagined portrait of middle-class black life in nineteenth-century Philadelphia.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Frank J. Webb: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The Garies and Their Friends

Appendix A: Contemporary Responses

1. From The Observer (London) (20 September 1857)
2. From the Literary Gazette (London) (26 September 1857)
3. From The Morning Post (London) (6 October 1857)
4. The Standard (London) (7 October 1857)
5. From The Daily News (London) (9 October 1857)
6. From the Athenaeum (London) (24 October 1857)

Appendix B: Law, Culture, and the Color Line

1. From William Goodell, The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice (1853)
2. From George M. Stroud, A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery (1827)
3. From John F. Denny, An Enquiry into the Political Grade of the Free Colored Population (1834)
4. From Benjamin C. Howard, Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford (1857)
5. From Frederick Douglass, “The Dred Scott Decision,” delivered before the American Anti-Slavery Society, NY (14 May 1857)
6. Edward Williams Clay, Life in Philadelphia, Plate IV (1829)

Appendix C: Black Philadelphia in the Antebellum Era

1. Map of Philadelphia (1848)
2. From A Statistical Inquiry into the Condition of the People of Colour, of the City and Districts of Philadelphia (1842)
3. From Robert Purvis, Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens, Threatened with Disenfranchisement, to the People of Pennsylvania (1838)
4. From Joseph Willson, Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia (1841)
5. Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Lady Hatherton (24 May 1856)

Appendix D: Racism in Philadelphia

1. From “The Philadelphia Riots,” the Philadelphia U. S. Gazette (2 August 1842)
2. From History of Pennsylvania Hall (1838)
3. John Sartain, The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall (1838)

Works Cited and Select Bibliography