Soledad Brother (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: George Jackson
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1964–1970
- Setting: California
- Principal Characters: George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson, (Robert) Lester Jackson, Georgia Jackson, Angela Davis
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Social action, 1960’s, Power, personal or social, Communism or communists, Prisons, Socialism, Murder or homicide, Education or educators, Inner cities or inner-city life, Revenge, Reading, Capitalism, Catholics or Catholic Church, Exercise, Letters
- Locales: California
Form and Content
Soledad Brother is a collection of George Jackson’s letters to relatives and friends, written from California prisons. At the age of eighteen, Jackson was given an indeterminate sentence of one year to life for stealing $71 from a gas station. Despite his two prior convictions for armed robbery, his rage at serving eleven years in prison for stealing only $71 is understandable. What made it worse was his belief that he might spend the rest of his life in prison. This real-life event has been compared with Victor Hugo’s classic novel Les...
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