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Truevine : Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: a True Story of the Jim Crow South by Beth Macy (2016, Hardcover)

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "Ambassadors from Mars." Back home, their mother never accepted that they were "gone" and spent 28 years trying to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? TRUEVINE is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today.

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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316337544
ISBN-13
9780316337540
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219894956

Product Key Features

Book Title
Truevine : Twobrothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: a True Story of the Jim Crow South
Author
Beth Macy
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, United States / 20th Century, Entertainment & Performing Arts, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV)
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
432 Pages

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Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
26.3 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Gv1811.A1m33 2016
Reviews
"The author's brightly written, richly detailed narrative not only illuminates globalization and the issue of offshoring, but succeeds brilliantly in conveying the human costs borne by low-income people displaced from a way of life.... A masterly feat of reporting."-- Kirkus (starred review)
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2015-959853
Intended Audience
Trade
Illustrated
Yes

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The story reveals a part of African American/Slavery history that I was unaware of. The author did a remarkable job researching the story.
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