Jubilee (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Walker
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- 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
“Jubilee” is the biblical name for amnesty and forgiving of money debts every forty-nine years. The novel is organized in three parts. Chapter 1 (1837) is titled “Sis Hetta's Child—The Ante-Bellum Years.” The novel opens with the birth of Vyry in 1837, Hetta's last child, on the John Morris Dutton plantation, in Dawson, Georgia. The thirty-five-year-old Dutton was her father. Vyry would be able to pass for white. Hetta then died in pregnancy when Vyry was two. Mothered by Mammy Sukey until she is old enough to work at the age of seven, Vyry looks like the twin of Miss...
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