TRUEVINE: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South.
by Macy, Beth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a like dustjacket./like
- ISBN 10
- 0316337544
- ISBN 13
- 9780316337540
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York & Boston:: Little Brown,, (2016). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. In 1899, on a sweltering tobacco farm in Truevine, Virginia, the heart of the Jim Crow South, the Muse brothers, George and Willie, just 6 and 9 years old, worked the fields - until a white man offered them candy and stole them away to become circus freaks. For the next 28 years, their mother struggled to get them back. At the height of their fame, the brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlinedshows at New York's Madison Square Garden. But their success was based on the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even 'Ambassadors from Mars'. A story of cruelty and exploitation, of the seamy side of the circus and sideshows, but also of loyalty, determination and love. Illustrated with both color and black and white photographs. Extensive notes, index. 420 pp. Illustrated endpapers.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88823
- Title
- TRUEVINE: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South.
- Author
- Macy, Beth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316337544
- ISBN 13
- 9780316337540
- Publisher
- Little Brown,
- Place of Publication
- New York & Boston:
- Date Published
- (2016)
- Keywords
- circus, sideshow, child traficking, jim crow south,
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American History and nonfiction;
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