Everything you need to understand or teach Jubilee by Margaret Walker.
Vyrie is just a toddler when she's taken to the slave quarters at Shady Oaks where her mother, Hetta, lies dying in childbirth. Vyrie is the daughter of the plantation owner, John Dutton, but is a slave because her mother is a slave. Soon after Hetta's death, Aunt Sukey - the slave who tends many of the young slaves on the plantation - dies as well. Vyrie is taken into the...