Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition) -- Margaret Walker, Paperback

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

Author: Margaret Walker
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 09/06/2016
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.31w x 1.38d
ISBN: 9780544812123

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/2017 pg. 111

About the Author
MARGARET WALKER (1915-1998) was one of America's most popular and respected African American writers and scholars. Among the most formidable literary voices to emerge in the twentieth century, she will be remembered as one of the foremost transcribers of African American heritage.