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92 pages 3 hours read

Jubilee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

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Essay Topics

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How are the planters able to pit disenfranchised groups—slaves, poor whites, and free blacks—against each other? How does this strife help to maintain the slave system?

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Describe the characteristics of Southern femininity. How were these codes of behavior, which were intended to elevate white women, exemplary of some aspects of sexism in the 19th century?

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Describe the relationship between black woman and white women, particularly that between Vyry and Lillian. What respective roles do they learn according to their races and genders?

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