Jubilee
- ISBN-10
- 0395924952
- ISBN-13
- 9780395924952
- Series
- Jubilee
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 497
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1966
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Margaret Walker
Description
A novel based on the life of the author's great-grandmother follows the story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and one of his slaves, through the years of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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