The Garies and their Friends: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Garies and their Friends, credited to Frank Webb, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Garies and their Friends by Frank Webb. Read in English by Jim Locke 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 increased in numbers, wealth, and standing — they constitute a peculiar society of their own, presenting many social peculiarities worthy of interest and attention. The representations of their positions as to wealth and education are reliable, the incidents related are mostly true ones, woven together by a slight web of fiction. From the Preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Garies and their Friends
• Author credits: Frank Webb
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 12:51:55

Catalogue topics

• race
• culture
• Amerca
• after slavery
• fiction
• prejudice

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 30:34
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 25:22
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 17:23
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 26:06
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 18:33
6. 06 - Chapter 6 — 25:32
7. 07 - Chapter 7 — 25:27
8. 08 - Chapter 8 — 20:27
9. 09 - Chapter 9 — 19:59
10. 10 - Chapter 10 — 14:08
11. 11 - Chapter 11 — 20:12
12. 12 - Chapter 12 — 18:49
13. 13 - Chapter 13 — 15:41
14. 14 - Chapter 14 — 23:48
15. 15 - Chapter 15 — 17:35
16. 16 - Chapter 16 — 18:19
17. 17 - Chapter 17 — 18:54
18. 18 - Chapter 18 — 23:13
19. 19 - Chapter 19 — 18:05
20. 20 - Chapter 20 — 34:13
21. 21 - Chapter 21 — 12:32
22. 22 - Chapter 22 — 12:23
23. 23 - Chapter 23 — 17:17
24. 24 - Chapter 24 — 18:16

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