Jubilee - 50th Anniversary Edition - Margaret Walker torrent

Category: Adults, Classic, Historical Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: American Civil War
Written by Margaret Walker
Read by Robin Miles
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
The 50th-anniversary edition of Margaret Walker’s best-selling 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 30 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.
Originally published 1966.


The 50th-anniversary edition of Margaret Walker’s best-selling 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 30 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.

Originally published 1966.