Jubilee
Author: Margaret Walker
A 50th anniversary edition of Margaret Walker’s best-selling classic with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni, , Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and one of his black slaves. 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….Read More
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