A Synopsis Of Vyry's Jubilee

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Jubilee, a book centered around the life of a slave named Vyry (Also known as Elvira Dutton). Vyry who was born a slave had to work her life at a plantation owned by the negro loving master, John Dutton. It is also told that Vyry was the illegitimate child born from the miscegenation John did with a young slave named Hetta. The young slave died after giving birth to a huge number of children for years. The story revolves around the struggle of living a life as a slave, the so dreaded civil war, and how Vyry managed to live a peaceful life in the end. Slavery which is the main topic of this book was also the reason the civil war started with the Confederates supporting the act of slavery while the Union wasn't so happy about it. Then comes in political actions such as Abraham Lincoln issuing the emancipation proclamation proclaiming the abolition of slavery and salve could all live as a free human being. …show more content…

They all had their slaves to work and die for them. They don't even pay the slaves. They only feed them and gave them place to live in. The slaves was living a miserable life. The civil war as the book describes in the second part was a life changing event that happen to the slaves. The south suffers a lot of damage because of the war. It causes their economy to drop rapidly and thus plantation owners suffers a lot of loss. As the south was dominated by mostly agricultural businesses, the loss in the civil war impacts a lot of plantation owner. Slaves are free in the third part of the book and to work for somebody, they must be paid. Economy throughout the states were starting to grow better after the war but not progressing a lot. The price of cotton after war was very high and it's very hard to obtain because it is hard to find a good soil to plant them anymore. Taxes were increased to cover the loss in the war. The tuition of the school at that time was fifty cents and poor people find it hard to

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