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Image of the cover of Margaret Walker's novel Jubilee, the 1966 winner of Houghton Mifflin's Literary Fellowship Award. The cover features an image of an African American woman as well as several images of white soldiers and the face of a white man wearing a bow tie. The background is dark yellow.This novel is one of the first to present the nineteenth-century African American historical experience in the South from a black and female point of view. The novel is a fictionalized account of the life of Walker's great-grandmother, Margaret Duggans Ware Brown, who was born a slave in Dawson in Terrell County, Georgia and lived through Reconstruction in southwest Georgia. It is based on stories told to Walker by her maternal grandmother.

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New Georgia Encyclopedia

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Digital Library of Georgia