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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.… (más)
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Jubilee
We are climbing Jacob's ladder, We are climbing Jacob's ladder, We are climbing Jacob's ladder, for the year of Jubilee!
Every round goes higher, higher, Every round goes higher, higher, Every round goes higher, higher, to the year of Jubilee.
Do you think I'll make a soldier? Do you think I'll make a soldier? Do you think I'll make a soldier? in the year of Jubilee?
--Tradiitonal Negro Spiritual
We are climbing Jacob's ladder, We are climbing Jacob's ladder, We are climbing Jacob's ladder, for the year of Jubilee!
Every round goes higher, higher, Every round goes higher, higher, Every round goes higher, higher, in the year of Jubilee.
Do you think I'll make a soldier? Do you think I'll make a soldier? Do you think I'll make a soldier? in the year of Jubilee?
Traditional Negro Spiritual
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This book is dedicated to all the members of my family with all my love. It is especially for my mother, my husband, my sisters, and brother because they helped to make it possible. It is for my four children that they may know something of their heritage. And it is to the memory of my grandmothers: my maternal great-grandmother, MJargaret Duggans Ware Brown, whose story this is; my maternal grandmother, Elvira Ware Dozier, who told me this story; and my paternal grandmother, Margaret Walker.
This book is dedicated to all the members of my family with all my love. It is especially for my mother, my husband, my sisters, and brother because they helped to make it possible. It is for my four children that they may know something of their heritage. And it is to the memory of my grandmothers: my maternal great-grandmother, Margaret Duggans Ware Brown, whose story this is; my maternal grandmother, Elvira Ware Dozier, who told me this story; and my paternal grandmother, Margaret Walker.
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"May Liza, how come you so restless and uneasy? You must be restless in your mind."
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This time she was feeding her own chickens and calling them home to roost. It was this call Minna heard her mother crooning: "Come biddy, biddy, biddy, biddy, Come chick,chick, chick, chick!
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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