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Title Truevine : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South / Beth Macy.

Publication Info. New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2016]
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  791.3 MACY    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY MACY    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  364.66 MAC    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  364.66 MAC    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  791.35 MACY    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  975.5041 MACY    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  GROUP BIOGRAPHY MUSE, GEORGE & WILLIE    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  364.66 MAC    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B MUSE FAMILY M    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  791.35 MAC    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description x, 420 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Note Maps on lining papers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-404) and index.
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.
Summary 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.-- adapted from dust jacket.
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 the Jim Crow South called Truevine, where everyone they knew was either a former slave or a child or grandchild of slaves. Though the narrative of George and Willie Muse has been passed down for over a century, no writer has ever gotten this close to the beating heart of their story and its mysteries: Were they really kidnapped and put into servitude by the circus? How did their mother, a black maid toiling under the harsh restrictions of segregation, bring them home? And why, after getting there, would they ever want to go back? At the height of their fame, the Muse brothers performed for British royalty and headlined more than a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were fine musicians and global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success hinged on the color of their skin and on the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even 'Ambassadors from Mars." Beth Macy is a master chronicler of life in the South, and her exclusive interviews and sources make for a riveting American story about race, greed, and a mother's love. These 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.--Adapted from dust jacket.
Subject Muse, George, 1890-1971.
Muse, Willie, 1893-2001.
Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows -- History.
Muse, George, 1890-1971. (OCoLC)fst01942608
Muse, Willie, 1893-2001. (OCoLC)fst01942609
Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows. (OCoLC)fst00618828
Albinos and albinism -- Biography.
Circus performers -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography.
Children of sharecroppers -- Virginia -- Biography.
Racism in popular culture -- History.
Child circus performers -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
United States -- Race relations.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Circus.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural.
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Albinos and albinism. (OCoLC)fst00804199
Child circus performers. (OCoLC)fst01919332
Children of sharecroppers. (OCoLC)fst00855504
Circus performers. (OCoLC)fst00861671
Racism in popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01086660
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Virginia. (OCoLC)fst01204597
Circus performers -- United States -- Biography.
African American entertainers -- Biography.
Albinos and albinism -- Biography.
Kidnapping -- United States -- Case studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Circus.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural.
Circus performers -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography.
Albinos and albinism -- Biography.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
Added Title Two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South
ISBN 9780316337540 (hardcover)
0316337544 (hardcover)
9780316337526
0316337528
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