02840cam a2200349 4500 586863364 TxAuBib 20220721120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780316337533 0316337536 B01BKSLGHG Amazon dab0f177-e3e3-43a4-9e0c-3c584970d023 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2580649 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Macy, Beth. Truevine [Libby] : Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South. Little, Brown and Company, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 63MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 62MB. History. Multi-Cultural. African American Nonfiction. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>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.</b><br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> 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. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-21 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dab0f177-e3e3-43a4-9e0c-3c584970d023&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dab0f177-e3e3-43a4-9e0c-3c584970d023&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dab0f177-e3e3-43a4-9e0c-3c584970d023&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXOLT