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Jubilee

by Margaret Walker
Nikki Giovanni
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The bestselling classic about a mixed-race child in the Civil War-era South that “chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondage” (TheNew York Times Book Review).
 
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.
 
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.
 
“A revelation.”—Milwaukee Journal
 
Includes a foreword by Nikki Giovanni
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  • Release date: June 11, 2020

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  • ISBN: 9780544812192
  • File size: 1105 KB
  • Release date: June 11, 2020

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  • ISBN: 9780544812192
  • File size: 3968 KB
  • Release date: June 11, 2020
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subjects

Fiction African American Fiction Literature Historical Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1090
Text Difficulty:7-9

The bestselling classic about a mixed-race child in the Civil War-era South that “chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondage” (TheNew York Times Book Review).
 
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.
 
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.
 
“A revelation.”—Milwaukee Journal
 
Includes a foreword by Nikki Giovanni
Expand title description text
Fiction African American Fiction Literature Historical Fiction
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