Jubilee (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Walker
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: The 1840’s to 1870
- Setting: Dawson, Georgia; Abbeville, Troy, Luverne, and Greenville, in south-central Alabama
- Principal Characters: Vyry Brown, Randall Ware, Innis Brown, John Morris Dutton, Salina Dutton, Ed Grimes
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Biographical fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Freedom, Racism, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Marriage, Plantations or plantation life, Women’s issues, Civil War, Christianity, Women, Ku Klux Klan, Reconstruction, Remarriage
- Locales: South (U.S.), Abbeville, AL, Dawson, GA, Greenville, AL, Luverne, AL, Troy, AL
The Novel
Jubilee tells a story of slavery, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction period from the point of view of the black people who were often both victims and pawns in a struggle that convulsed an entire nation. Just as Gone with the Wind (1936) is the story not just of a period but of a woman, the indomitable Scarlett O’Hara, so the narrative power of Jubilee derives from its protagonist, the slave Vyry, modeled after Margaret Duggans Ware Brown, the author’s great-grandmother. The book was inspired by the stories told to Margaret Walker at...
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