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Free, Black, and Married
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This chapter concerns the importance of marriage to the formation of a free black antebellum community. It discusses Frank J. Webb's 1857 novel, The Garies and Their Friends, which depicts the trials and tribulations of the growing free, black middle class of Philadelphia of which he and his first wife, the distinguished performer Mary E. Webb, were prominent members. Drawing upon Stowe's concept of the nonlegal slave-marriage as offering a more equitable and fruitful relationship between a husband and wife than the proprietary terms of a legal marriage, Webb's novel develops the terms of a free black marriage. Moving away from the legal rhetoric of marriage, The Garies and Their Friends imagines marriage—based perhaps on the author's own exemplary marriage—as an equal exchange between husband and wife.
Title: Free, Black, and Married
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This chapter concerns the importance of marriage to the formation of a free black antebellum community.
It discusses Frank J.
Webb's 1857 novel, The Garies and Their Friends, which depicts the trials and tribulations of the growing free, black middle class of Philadelphia of which he and his first wife, the distinguished performer Mary E.
Webb, were prominent members.
Drawing upon Stowe's concept of the nonlegal slave-marriage as offering a more equitable and fruitful relationship between a husband and wife than the proprietary terms of a legal marriage, Webb's novel develops the terms of a free black marriage.
Moving away from the legal rhetoric of marriage, The Garies and Their Friends imagines marriage—based perhaps on the author's own exemplary marriage—as an equal exchange between husband and wife.
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