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Physical Description:print x, 420 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2016]
Content descriptions
General Note:
Maps on lining papers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographic references (pages 353-404) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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, etc.:
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. --
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