Jubilee, 50th Anniversary Edition

By: Margaret Walker

Narrated by: Robin Miles

The 50th-anniversary edition of Margaret Walker's best-selling classic, with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni.

Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction.

Weaving her own family's oral history with 30 years of research, Margaret Walker's novel brings the everyday experiences of slaves to light. Jubilee churns with the hunger, the hymns, the struggles, and the very breath of American history.

©2016 Margaret Walker (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Hard, but good read

the content angered me but the story was so good I had to see it through til the end. The narrator was excellent in her ability to differentiate the characters.

Great Read

My favorite part is the main character having to choose between husband #1 who was very W.E.B. DuBois and husband #2 who was very Booker T Washington. I love the way they allowed her to choose and in doing so the husbands developed a mutual respect for each other.

Stirring performance: An insightful experience

Great narration and an insightful look into the lives lived by early African American during the pre and post American Civil War era.

excellent

everyone should listen to this true story and consider the words of Baha'u'llah that "the earth is one country, and mankind its citizens."

Good novel.

An in-depth look at slavery during the civil war era. A sad situation for our ancestors.