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Audiobook CD, 2016
Current format, Audiobook CD, 2016, 50th Anniversary edition., All copies in use.
Audiobook CD, 2016
Current format, Audiobook CD, 2016, 50th Anniversary edition., All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formats
The fiftieth-anniversary edition of Margaret Walker's bestselling classic with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni, 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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