Jubilee (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
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: Georgia and Alabama
- 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
Characters Discussed
Elvira (Vyry) Dutton, the protagonist, based on the author’s great-grandmother, a slave on a Georgia plantation who is freed at the time of the Civil War. At the age of two, she loses her mother in childbirth. The daughter of the white plantation owner, Vyry is pale-skinned, with sandy hair and gray- blue eyes. Mistreated and beaten by her father’s white wife, she develops great strength of character while retaining her capacity for compassion and for forgiveness. When her free husband is forced to leave Georgia without her and their two children, she...
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