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Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction. Weaving her own family's oral history with thirty years of research, Margaret Walker's novel brings the everyday experiences of slaves to light. Jubilee churns with the hunger, the hymns, the struggles, and the very breath of American history.

Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)

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Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears... Read more

    Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
    Publication Date: 06/09/2016
    ISBN13: 9780544812123, 978-0544812123
    ISBN10: 0544812123

    Number of Pages: 528

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction. Weaving her own family's oral history with thirty years of research, Margaret Walker's novel brings the everyday experiences of slaves to light. Jubilee churns with the hunger, the hymns, the struggles, and the very breath of American history.

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