Truevine : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest: a true story of the Jim Crow South

Author

Beth Macy

Call Number

• 791.35 M1778 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016.

Physical Description

420 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

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.

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 son
• 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.