Jubilee (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Walker
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: 1839-1870
- Setting: Georgia and Alabama
- Principal Characters: Vyry, Randall Ware, Innis Brown, John Morris Dutton, Salina Dutton (Big Missy), Lillian Dutton, Aunt Sally, 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
Form and Content
Jubilee is a fictionalized account of the life of Margaret Walker’s maternal great-grandmother, Margaret Duggans Ware Brown, the character of Vyry in the novel. She lived through slavery, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction and died a month before Margaret Walker was born. Walker’s grandmother passed on the history of her mother’s life in the form of bedtime stories that she told her granddaughter. From this oral history, Walker reconstructed the events of that period of American history from antebellum days through Reconstruction. In doing so,...
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