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An edition of Jubilee (1966)

Jubilee

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The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Bantam Books
Language
English
Pages
416

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Subjects
Fiction, African American women, Racially mixed people, History, African Americans, Slavery, Women slaves, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Afro-Americans, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Coming of age, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, war & military, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, Slaves, fiction, African americans, fiction, Fiction, general, Children's fiction, FICTION, African American, Historical, American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658
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United States
Times
Civil War, 1861-1865

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January 21, 1999, Mariner Books
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Jubilee
June 1997, Mcdougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
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1967, Bantam Books
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1966, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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Table of Contents

Sis Hetta's child: Ante-bellum years: Death is a mystery that only the squinch owl knows
Along the Big Road in Egypt's land...
F''el esaa b ri doty uo romnuatni''
Brother Zeke: ''I'm a poor way-faring stranger''
Grimes: ''Cotton is king!''
aMsr eoJnhs'd nien raptry
Cook in the Big House
Randall Ware
Spring time is sallet time
Wedding in the Big House and love in the cornfields
Fourth of July celebration
She has the letter ''R'' branded on her face
Harvest time
''There's star in the East on Christmas morn''
Freedom is a secret word I dare not say
Get a man to buy my time out
Put on men's clothes and a man's old cap
Seventy-five lashes on her naked back
''Mine eyes have seen the Glory'': Civil War years: ''John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave''
This pot is boiling over and the fat is in the fire
Vernal Equinox of 1861
Don't make them come and get you! Volunteer!
We'll be back home before breakfast is over
They made us sing ''Dixie''
Chickamauga: River of death
Can you forge?
Down with the shackle and up with the star!
Shall be forever free
Mister Lincoln is our Moses
Action at Olustee
Pensive on her dead gazing
Confederate specie
General Sherman is in Georgia
What's that I smell?
''We'll hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree''
Noise like thunder...a cloud of dust
Honor of this house...
My name is Innis Brown
What you waiting here for?
One more Christmas on the old home place
''Forty years in wilderness'': Reconstruction and reaction: Two weeks in the wagon
Bound for Alabama
Wiregrass country in the Alabama bottoms
Forty acres and a mule
New land and higher ground
Brand new house with windows from the mill
Bad luck and hard times
Ku Klux Klan don't like no Koons
Keep the niggers from the polls and we'll return to White Home Rule!
Burned out and running for our lives twice in a row
Don't look like free schools and land reform is ever coming
Where's the money coming from?
I reckon I can be a granny in a pinch
We got new neighbors now
Freedom don't mean nothing, him allus driving and whupping me to work!
Blackest man I ever did see
What will happen to poor colored folks now?
Howdy and goodbye, honey-boy!

Edition Notes

Series
A Bantam book -- N3521
Copyright Date
1966

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.54
Library of Congress
PS3545.A517 J8 1967b

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 416 p. :
Number of pages
416

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24764767M
Internet Archive
jubilee00walk
ISBN 10
0553273833
ISBN 13
9780553273830
OCLC/WorldCat
21501675

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