The best-selling 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" (New 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
