num_pages: 497
description: A 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 one of his black slaves. 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.
language: English
title: Jubilee
titlecomplete: Jubilee
genres: Fiction, African American, Classics, Southern, Race, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literature, Civil War, Audiobook
ratings_count: 6101
places: Alabama, Georgia
awards: name: Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award
publisher: Mariner Books