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1. www.nytimes.com › 2016/10/17 › booksReview: An Account of Black Albino Brothers in Beth Macy’s ...

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   Oct 16, 2016 · Ms. Macy’s second book explores the true story of George and Willie Muse, black men in the Jim Crow South who were paraded in circuses.

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3. www.nytimes.com › 2016/10/23 › booksHow Two Black Albino Brothers Became Unwilling Sideshow Stars

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   Oct 21, 2016 · Whether or not the circus actually kidnapped the brothers, a question for which Macy doesn’t find a clear answer, she found that Harriet Muse never stopped searching for George and Willie.

4. www.bookreporter.com › features › featured-reviewTruevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A ...

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   Oct 17, 2017 · George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day, a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever.

5. www.theguardian.com › books › 2017American freakshow: the extraordinary tale of Truevine’s Muse ...

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   Mar 15, 2017 · Beth Macy’s bestselling book tells the story of two African American brothers with albinism who were kidnapped and forced to perform in a 1920s circus.

6. www.npr.org › 2016/10/17 › 498219517'Truevine' Tells The Tale Of 2 Black Albino Brothers Forced ...

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   Oct 17, 2016 · For years, black children around Roanoke, Va., heard the cautionary tale of Willie and George Muse, African American albino brothers who were kidnapped and forced to perform in a series of...

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7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › TruevineTruevine - Wikipedia

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   The book tells the story of George and Willie Muse, two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and forced to perform as sideshow attractions because they were albinos. Truevine was released on October 18, 2016 through Little, Brown and Company.

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   Who are George and Willie Muse?

   • The book tells the story of George and Willie Muse, two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and forced to perform as sideshow attractions because they were albinos. Truevine was released on October 18, 2016 through Little, Brown and Company.

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   What happened to Willie and George Muse?

   • When they retired they lived in a house that was bought with their own earnings and they were taken care of by their family. For years, black children around Roanoke, Va., heard the cautionary tale of Willie and George Muse, African American albino brothers who were kidnapped and forced to perform in a series of circuses.

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   What did George & Willie Muse do for a living?

   • "It was hard hand work," Macy says. "They said they worked the shift from daylight to dark, which they called 'can-see to can't-see' or 'can to can't' for short." George and Willie Muse were frequently exhibited as Eko and Iko, dubbed the Sheep-Headed Men, or sometimes Ambassadors from Mars.

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   How did the Muse Brothers get stolen?

   • How? When journalist Beth Macy first moved to Roanoke, Va. almost 30 years ago, a colleague told her about the best story in town that no one had ever been able to get: Two young African Americans, the Muse Brothers, had been stolen by a carnival in the late 19th or early 20th century — and exhibited in sideshows, because they were albinos.

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   Who were the Muse Brothers?

   • By that time the Muse Brothers had left the local carnival circuit and were headliners with the country's biggest circus. They were musicians now, and were known as Eko and Iko, with a variety of lurid back stories to explain who they were and where they came from. They still were under the control of the man who said he was their manager.

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   Why did Harriet Muse Let Her brothers out?

   • "There's some evidence that Harriet Muse may have initially leased the brothers out, and let them go with a carnival operator who was passing through Covington or Clifton Forge, Va., but she wanted them back, and she had no idea where they were," Macy says.

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9. www.usatoday.com › story › life'Truevine': How black brothers became sideshow attraction

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   Oct 18, 2016 · The story begins on a “sweltering” tobacco farm in 1899 in a Virginia town near Roanoke called Truevine, where 9-year-old George and 6-year-old Willie were toiling the “can see to can’t ...