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The year was 1899, as the old people informed the story, the place a sweltering cigarette plantation in Truevine, Virginia, the heart of the Jim Crow South, where everyone they recognized was the previous slave or a kid or grandchild of slaves. The Muse brothers, George and Willie, were just six and nine yrs . old, however they worked the fields from dawn to dark. Until a white man offered them chocolate and stole them away to become circus freaks. For another 28 years, their distraught mom struggled to get them back again. But were they really kidnapped? And exactly how did their mom, a scarcely literate black girl in the segregated South, have the ability to bring them home? And why, after coming home, would they want to go back to the circus? In the height of these fame, 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 prebroadcast age. However the very root of their success was at the colour of these epidermis and in the outrageous caricatures these were forced to expect: meant cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even ambassadors from Mars. The consequence of a huge selection of interviews and ages of research, Truevine, by creator and journalist Beth Macy, says the extraordinary history of what really happened to the Muse brothers for the very first time. It is an unforgettable history of cruelty and exploitation but also of loyalty, willpower and love.
