The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb
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Title: The Garies and Their Friends
Author: Frank J. Webb
Release Date: February 21, 2004 [EBook #11214]
Language: English
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THE GARIES
AND
THEIR FRIENDS
Frank J. Webb
1857
Preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe
TO THE
LADY NOEL BYRON
THIS BOOK
IS, BY HER KIND PERMISSION,
MOST AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,
WITH PROFOUND RESPECT,
BY HER GRATEFUL FRIEND,
THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a question which the late agitation of the subject of slavery has raised in many thoughtful minds; viz.--Are the race at present held as slaves capable of freedom, self-government, and progress?
The author is a coloured young man, born and reared in the city of Philadelphia.
This city, standing as it does on the frontier between free and slave territory, has accumulated naturally a large population of the mixed and African race.
Being one of the nearest free cities of any considerable size to the slave territory, it has naturally been a resort of escaping fugitives, or of emancipated slaves.
In this city they form a large class--have