Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South by Beth Macy

Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South

Beth Macy

420 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history true crime challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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informative 92%
reflective 53%
emotional 46%
sad 46%
dark 30%
challenging 23%
adventurous 15%
hopeful 7%

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medium 28%
fast 7%

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