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Truevine
Author | : Beth Macy |
Publsiher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2016-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780316337564 |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER 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. 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. 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. 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.
Truevine
Author | : Beth Macy |
Publsiher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2016-10-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781447278085 |
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In Truevine, Virginia, in 1899 everyone the Muse brothers knew was either a former slave, or a child or grandchild of slaves. George and Willie Muse were just six and nine years old, but they worked the fields from dawn to dark. Until a white man offered them candy and stole them away to become circus freaks. For the next twenty-eight years, their distraught mother struggled to get them back. But were they really kidnapped? And how did their mother, a barely literate black woman in the segregated South, manage to bring them home? And why, after coming home, would they want to go back to the circus? In Truevine, bestselling author Beth Macy reveals for the first time what really happened to the Muse brothers. It is an unforgettable story of cruelty and exploitation, but also of loyalty, determination and love.
The True Vine Meditations for a Month on John 15 1 16
Author | : Andrew Murray |
Publsiher | : CCEL |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 19?? |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9781610251426 |
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Music from the True Vine
Author | : Bill C. Malone |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780807835104 |
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Music from the True Vine
Factory Man
Author | : Beth Macy |
Publsiher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780316231565 |
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The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business. The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its production overseas. One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co, which employs more than 700 Virginians and has sales of more than $90 million. In Factory Man, Beth Macy brings to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family story, along with a host of characters from an industry that was as cutthroat as it was colorful. As she shows how he uses legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and sheer grit and cunning to save hundreds of jobs, she also reveals the truth about modern industry in America.
True Vine
Author | : John W. Fountain |
Publsiher | : Public Affairs |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2005-01-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1586482858 |
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The true story of an African-American man who found, through faith and the self-assurance it provided, the strength to break free of the cycle of poverty and despair that had once characterized his life. (Memoir)
A Biblical Walk Through The Mass
Author | : Edward Sri |
Publsiher | : Ascension Press |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2014-06-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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As Catholics, the Mass is the center of our Faith. We celebrate it every day. We know all the responses. We know all the gestures. But do we know what it all means? In A Biblical Walk Through the Mass, Dr. Edward Sri takes us on a unique tour of the Liturgy. Based on the revised translation of the Mass, this book explores the biblical roots of the words and gestures we experience in the Liturgy and explains their profound significance. This intriguing look at the Mass is sure to renew your faith and deepen your devotion to the Eucharist. This book is used as the text for A Biblical Walk Through the Mass Study Program, but it may also be purchased separately at steep bulk discounts. For those not able to attend a study, this is a perfect resource for catechesis on the deep riches of the Mass.
TRUE VINE MEDITATIONS FOR A MO
Author | : Andrew 1828-1917 Murray |
Publsiher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2016-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1374302902 |
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