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Frank J. Webb

African-American novelist, poet and essayist (1828-1894) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 66

Francis Johnson Webb was an American novelist, poet, and essayist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His novel, The Garies and Their Friends (1857), was the second novel by an African American to be published, and the first to portray the daily lives of free blacks in the North.

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Writers
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Status
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Lived 1828 to 1894 · aged 66