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The true tale of two BLACK brothers who were kidnapped and viewed as circus freaks, and whose mom endured a 28-year struggle to have them back. The entire year was 1899, and the place a sweltering tobacco plantation in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little kids created to a sharecropper family. 1 day a white man offered them a bit of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives permanently. Captured in to 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. These were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. However the very root of their success is at the color of their epidermis and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to expect: intended cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "ambassadors from Mars". Back home their mom never accepted that they were gone and spent 28 years trying to get them back. Through a huge selection 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 celebrities or in poverty at home? Truevine is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today.
