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Remaking black motherhood in Frank J. Webb's The Gaffes and their Friends.

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From: African American Review
Date: 20040622
Author:Duane, Anna Mae

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? (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Preface to The Garies and their Friends [1857])

According to many critics, the novel Stowe prefaces, Frank J. Webb's The Garies and their Friends, seems to share her doubts concerning the capability of "the race at present held as slaves" to govern themselves. At least that's one way ...

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