A review by rachelwalexander
Jubilee by Margaret Walker

4.0

I listened to this as an audiobook, which made some of the long descriptions about plantation life really interesting where they might have felt more tangential or distracting been if I'd been reading. But anyway, this was a really detailed story of a woman's entire life growing up a slave and living through the Civil War and Reconstruction. It's got a lovely amount of detail about what those times were like that should disabuse anyone with lingering notions about "slavery wasn't that bad."