Jubilee, 50th Anniversary Edition

By: Margaret Walker

Narrated by: Robin Miles

The 50th-anniversary edition of Margaret Walker's best-selling classic, with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni.

Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction.

Weaving her own family's oral history with 30 years of research, Margaret Walker's novel brings the everyday experiences of slaves to light. Jubilee churns with the hunger, the hymns, the struggles, and the very breath of American history.

©2016 Margaret Walker (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Hard, but good read

the content angered me but the story was so good I had to see it through til the end. The narrator was excellent in her ability to differentiate the characters.

Great Read

My favorite part is the main character having to choose between husband #1 who was very W.E.B. DuBois and husband #2 who was very Booker T Washington. I love the way they allowed her to choose and in doing so the husbands developed a mutual respect for each other.

Stirring performance: An insightful experience

Great narration and an insightful look into the lives lived by early African American during the pre and post American Civil War era.

excellent

everyone should listen to this true story and consider the words of Baha'u'llah that "the earth is one country, and mankind its citizens."

Good novel.

An in-depth look at slavery during the civil war era. A sad situation for our ancestors.

It was well worth the time. So good!!

The story was amazing, it invoked a roller-coaster of emotions. Performance was top notch.

Great!!!!

This is a great teaching book and the narrators were excellent this should be a must read in schools. So true and educational

Compelling story

Thoroughly enjoyed this story of freedom and its disappointments in the reconstruction era South. I will recommend this novel to others.

Well developed story and characters including the main protagonist.

I wanted the story to keep going to find out how the lives of the characters progressed. I guess since this is based on a true story, perhaps more might be more written one day.

Listen to this book!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Jubilee is harrowing, insightful, heartbreaking and timeless. This story really took me away and the main character is amongst the most inspiring heroines I have ever encountered.

What about Robin Miles’s performance did you like?

Robin Miles gives effortless life to this book. The dialogue of each character is distinct without ever sounding like a stereotype. She also does a great job with the prose, making it live without ever over dramatizing Margaret Walker's great writing.

Any additional comments?

For me, this book brought so much important history to life. I felt informed, not just about historical events, but also why things happened the way they did and the attitudes of the different people involved. More importantly, Jubilee was such an experience and I could not stop listening. I am glad that after so many years there is such a high quality audio version of Jubilee. I hope that the 50th anniversary release will raise the profile of this under-read classic.
I have never written a review on Audible before but as of when I am writing this there are no reviews on Audible for Jubilee and I feel obligated to let potential listeners know how worth their time and precious credits this book is.