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Truevine two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South

Truevine two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South

Macy, Beth, author.
Large Print 2017

"The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the wor...

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ISBN:
9781432840044
9781410496188
Edition:
Large print edition
Description:
x, 609 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
large print
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
Prologue: I am the true vine
Sit down and shut up
White peoples is hateful
And still the cry against us continues
Your momma is dead
Some serious secrets
A paying proposition
He who hustleth while he waiteth
Comma, colored
The prodigal sons
Not one single, solitary, red penny
Adultery's siamese twin
Housekeeping!
Practically imbeciles
Very good old colored woman
Wilbur and John
God is good to me
Epilogue: markers
LCCN:
2016042633
Control Number:
2305153
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