Research Catalog
Jubilee
- Title
- Jubilee / Margaret Walker.
- Author
- Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998
- Publication
- Boston ; New York : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]
- ©1966
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS3545.A517 J83 2016 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Giovanni, Nikki
- Description
- xvii, 504 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- 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--Publisher's description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- War stories.
- War stories
- War fiction
- Historical fiction
- Fiction
- History
- Historical fiction.
- War fiction.
- Note
- Foreword by Nikki Giovanni.
- Contents
- Sis Hetta's Child : The Ante-Bellum Years. Death is a mystery that only the squinch owl knows -- Along the big road in Egypt's land... -- "Flee as a bird to your mountain" -- Brother Zeke : "I am a poor way-faring stranger" -- Grimes : "cotton is king!" -- Marse John's dinner party -- Cook in the big house -- Randall Ware -- Springtime is sallet time -- Wedding in the big house and love in the cornfields -- Fourth of July celebration -- She has the letter "R" branded on her face -- Harvest time -- "There's a star in the east on Christmas morn" -- Freedom is a secret word I dare not say -- Get a man to buy my time out -- Put on men's clothes and a man's old cap -- Seventy-five lashes on her naked back -- "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory" : The Civil War Years. "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave" -- This pot is boiling over and the fat is in the fire -- The Vernal Equinox of 1861 -- Don't make them come and get you! Volunteer! -- We'll be back home before breakfast is over -- They made us sing "Dixie" -- Chickamauga : River of Death -- Can you forge? -- Down with the shackle and up with the star! -- Shall be forever free -- Mister Lincoln is our Moses -- Action at Olustee -- Pensive on her dead gazing -- Confederate specie -- General Sherman is in Georgia -- What's that I smell? -- "We'll hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree" -- A noise like thunder...a cloud of dust -- The honor of this house -- My name is Innis Brown -- What you waiting here for? -- One more Christmas on the old home place -- "Forty Years in the Wilderness" : Reconstruction and Reaction. Two weeks in the wagon -- Bound for Alabama -- Wiregrass country in the Alabama bottoms -- Forty acres and a mule -- New land and higher ground -- Brand-new house with windows from the mill -- Bad luck and hard times -- Ku Klux Klan don't like no Koons -- Keep the niggers from the polls and we'll return to White Home Rule! -- Burned out and running for our lives twice in a row -- Don't look like free schools and land reform is ever coming -- Where's the money coming from? -- I reckon I can be a granny in a pinch -- We got new neighbors now -- Freedom don't mean nothing, him allus driving and whupping me to work! -- The blackest man I ever did see -- What will happen to poor colored folk now? -- Howdy and goodbye, honey-boy!.
- ISBN
- 9780544812123
- 0544812123
- LCCN
- 2016020547
- OCLC
- ocn950901645
- 950901645
- SCSB-14653964
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library