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The main argument in this book is when Harriett Muse’s two sons get kidnapped in the Jim Crow South. Brothers George and Willie Muse two pale skinned person African American siblings have been kidnapped by a white man Candy Shelton, who is a bounty hunter. They were seized and shown as carnival monstrosities, and whose mother persevered through a 28-year battle to get them back.
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