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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Macy, Beth, author.     Subjects     Muse, George, 1890-1971.     Muse, Willie, 1893-2001.     Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows -- History.     People with albinism -- Biography.     Circus performers -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography.     Children of sharecroppers -- Virginia -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Macy, Beth, author.       by title:      Truevine [electronic...         MARC Display

Truevine [electronic resource] : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South / Beth Macy. by Macy, Beth, author. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016. Subjects Muse, George, 1890-1971.   Muse, Willie, 1893-2001.   Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows -- History.   People with albinism -- Biography.   Circus performers -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography.   Children of sharecroppers -- Virginia -- Biography. Electronic Resource http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=50&titleID=2580649 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dab0f177-e3e3-43a4-9e0c-3c584970d023&.epub-sample.overdrive.com ISBN:  9780316337533 (electronic bk.) 0316337536 (electronic bk.) 9780316337540 0316337544 Description:  1 online resource (432 pages) : illustrations (some color), map Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  A true story of two albino African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a decades-long struggle to find them and to get justice for her family. The year was 1899, and the old people told the story: the place, a sweltering tobacco community in the Jim Crow South called Truevine, where everyone they knew was either a former slave or a child or grandchild of slaves. Though the narrative of George and Willie Muse has been passed down for over a century, no writer has ever gotten this close to the beating heart of their story and its mysteries: Were they really kidnapped and put into servitude by the circus? How did their mother, a black maid toiling under the harsh restrictions of segregation, bring them home? And why, after getting there, would they ever want to go back? At the height of their fame, the Muse brothers performed for British royalty and headlined more than a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were fine musicians and global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success hinged on the color of their skin and on the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even 'Ambassadors from Mars." Beth Macy is a master chronicler of life in the South, and her exclusive interviews and sources make for a riveting American story about race, greed, and a mother's love. These were two little boys born in a brutal time, sharecropping a field in the segregated South, stolen away by a white man offering candy, and set on a path of events that would forever change their lives--and their family's destiny.--Adapted from dust jacket.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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