"Here in the classic -- and true story -- of Vyry: the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress, a southern Civil War heroine to rival Scarlett O'Hara. Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction. Jubilee is a story that Margaret Walker heard as a child from her grandmother, the real Vyry's daughter. Weaving her family's oral history with thirty years...