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Jubilee
by Margaret Walker

Category:  Historical Fiction

Average Rating:  3.0

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 30 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.

Jeff

[2024-11-04 22:01:44]

Rating:  3

TBR - mp3 Narrated by: Robin Miles Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins DB41543 The daughter of a plantation owner and his black mistress is reared to young womanhood as a servant in this story, which chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many forms of bondage.