Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the antebellum South in both its opulence and its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction. Includes a Foreword by Nikki Giovanni

WHY WEK PICKED IT

Weaving her own family’s oral history with thirty years of research, Margaret Walker brings the everyday experiences of slaves to light in a novel that churns with the hunger, the hymns, the struggles, and the very breath of American history.

DETAILS
• Author: Margaret Walker
• Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
• Publication Date: September 6, 2016
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780544812123
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