Truevine two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South
A true story of two albino African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a decades-long struggle to find them and to get justice for her family. The year was 1899, and the old people told the story: the place, a sweltering tobacco community in...
| Main Author: | Macy, Beth (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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.