Jubilee / Margaret Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.

United States.

History.

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Multiracial people--Fiction.

Multiracial people.

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Enslaved women--Fiction.

Enslaved women.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 497 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : map (on lining papers) ; 22 cm

Edition:

Advance trade paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company ; Cambridge : The Riverside Press, 1966.

Contents:

I. Sis Hetta's Child

The Ante-Bellum Years

II. "Mine eyes have seen the Glory"

The Civil War Years

III. "Forty years in the wilderness"

Reconstruction and Reaction.

Notes:

"A Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Book."

" ... Jubilee is probably unique. For the first time we see the South at the end of a splendid ante-bellum era, during the tumult of war, and in the grim years of Reconstruction--from the Negro point of view."--Cover letter.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has facsimile of letter addressed to "Dear Bookseller" signed by "Paul Brooks Editor-in Chief" on front cover. Back cover has announcement "To be published in September".

Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has newspaper and magazine articles laid in.

OCLC:

273394