Returning Voices

The Garies and Their Friends

by Frank J. Webb

A free Black family builds a life and a business in a Northern city, only to discover the North’s promise of safety was never quite as complete as advertised. Webb wrote one of the very first novels by an African American author to reach print, and had to publish it in England to do so. Its very existence is as much the achievement as its plot.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 8 hr 45 min

Where to find it

On the Returning Voices shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #11214. In the public domain in the United States.