{"product_id":"truevine-two-brothers-a-kidnapping-and-a-mothers-quest-a-true-story-of-the-jim-crow-south","title":"Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCaptured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even \"Ambassadors from Mars.\" Back home, their mother never accepted that they were \"gone\" and spent 28 years trying to get them back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? Truevine is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today., ISBN13: 9780316337540 ISBN10: 0316337544 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126446248099,"sku":"FA_04-22-25_PHA_20000A7K","price":20.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/81wMRnqo-pL.jpg?v=1754889460","url":"https:\/\/usedbookdepot.com\/products\/truevine-two-brothers-a-kidnapping-and-a-mothers-quest-a-true-story-of-the-jim-crow-south","provider":"Used Book Depot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}