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Author:

Macy, Beth, author.

Title:

Truevine : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest: a true story of the Jim Crow South / Beth Macy.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

LittleBrown and Company,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

420 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Muse, George.
Muse, Willie.
Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows--History.
Albinos and albinism--Biography.
Circus performers--United States--20th century--Biography.
Children of sharecroppers--Virginia--Biography.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references (pages 353-404) and index.

Contents:

Prologue: I am the true vine -- Sit down and shut up -- White peoples is hateful -- And still the cry against us continues -- Your momma is dead -- Some serious secrets -- A paying proposition -- He who hustleth while he waiteth -- Comma, colored -- The prodigal sons -- Not one single, solitary red penny -- Adultery's siamese twin -- Housekeeping! -- Practically imbeciles -- Very good old colored woman -- Wilbur and John -- God is good to me -- Epilogue: markers.

Summary:

Beth Macy, master chronicler of life in the South, combines exhaustive research, exclusive interviews and sources, and attention to detail in this riveting American story about race, greed, and a mother's love. George and Willie Muse from Truevine, Virginia were two little boys born in a brutal time, sharecropping a field in the segregated South, stolen away by a white man offering candy, and set on a path of events that would forever change their lives--and their family's destiny. -- adapted from dust jacket.

ISBN:

0316337544
9780316337540

OCLC:

(OCoLC)953164761

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