Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
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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 Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two...
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During the time the Muse brothers began performing, Nicholas pointed out, adults could legally mail children - by affixing stamps to their shirts and putting them on a train. Beth Macy, Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South // Their world was so blindingly white that the brothers had to squint to keep from crying. On a clear day, it hurt just to open their eyes. They blinked constantly, trying to make out the hazy objects in front of them, their brows furrowed and their eyes darting from side to side, unable to settle on a focal point. Their eyes were tinged with pink, their irises a watery pale blue. Beth Macy, Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South // The entire country was obsessed with the notion of separating people into greater and lesser breeds. But Beth Macy, Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South //
3 starsWith the recent announcement of the end of the century-old traveling circus "The Greatest Show on Earth" (aka Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus) I was intrigued to read Beth Macy's Truevine, a book that promised to reveal a seedy underbelly to one of the most celebrated circuses in the world. Ms. Macy, for the most... 3.5 stars. Educational read about sideshow circus acts and the plight of Blacks in the south during the Jim Crow era. However, it was too long and winding. Sometime the author gave way too much information about other peripheral characters that was unnecessary. There are so many good things going on in this book. A century-old mystery. A mother's search for her sons. A big-top circus.Two young African American boys disappear from their Virginian town to resurface as Ambassadors From Mars or Ecuadorian Cannibals in a twentieth-century circus sideshow. Fast forward to today when a reporter pieces...
