Jubilee
By: by Margaret Walker
Series: A Bantam book -- N3521
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York; Toronto
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780553273830
Copyright date: 1966
Description: The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Table of contents: title: Sis Hetta's child: Ante-bellum years: Death is a mystery that only the squinch owl knows; title: Along the Big Road in Egypt's land...; title: F''el esaa b ri doty uo romnuatni''; title: Brother Zeke: ''I'm a poor way-faring stranger''; title: Grimes: ''Cotton is king!''; title: aMsr eoJnhs'd nien raptry; title: Cook in the Big House; title: Randall Ware; title: Spring time is sallet time; title: Wedding in the Big House and love in the cornfields; title: Fourth of July celebration; title: She has the letter ''R'' branded on her face; title: Harvest time; title: ''There's star in the East on Christmas morn''; title: Freedom is a secret word I dare not say; title: Get a man to buy my time out; title: Put on men's clothes and a man's old cap; title: Seventy-five lashes on her naked back; title: ''Mine eyes have seen the Glory'': Civil War years: ''John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave''; title: This pot is boiling over and the fat is in the fire; title: Vernal Equinox of 1861; title: Don't make them come and get you! Volunteer!; title: We'll be back home before breakfast is over; title: They made us sing ''Dixie''; title: Chickamauga: River of death; title: Can you forge?; title: Down with the shackle and up with the star!; title: Shall be forever free; title: Mister Lincoln is our Moses; title: Action at Olustee; title: Pensive on her dead gazing; title: Confederate specie; title: General Sherman is in Georgia; title: What's that I smell?; title: ''We'll hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree''; title: Noise like thunder...a cloud of dust; title: Honor of this house...; title: My name is Innis Brown; title: What you waiting here for?; title: One more Christmas on the old home place; title: ''Forty years in wilderness'': Reconstruction and reaction: Two weeks in the wagon; title: Bound for Alabama; title: Wiregrass country in the Alabama bottoms; title: Forty acres and a mule; title: New land and higher ground; title: Brand new house with windows from the mill; title: Bad luck and hard times; title: Ku Klux Klan don't like no Koons; title: Keep the niggers from the polls and we'll return to White Home Rule!; title: Burned out and running for our lives twice in a row; title: Don't look like free schools and land reform is ever coming; title: Where's the money coming from?; title: I reckon I can be a granny in a pinch; title: We got new neighbors now; title: Freedom don't mean nothing, him allus driving and whupping me to work!; title: Blackest man I ever did see; title: What will happen to poor colored folks now?; title: Howdy and goodbye, honey-boy!