Truevine

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks,and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of TruevineVirginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candysetting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circusthe 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 pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibalssheep-headed freakseven \