The known world

Jones, Edward P.

The known world / Edward P. Jones - New York : Amistad , c2003 - 388 p. ; 23 cm - Pulitzer Prize Winner - 2004 The National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for the National Book Award .

Henry Townsend, an African farmer and former slave, is befriended by the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County, and becomes proprietor of his own plantation and of his own slaves.


English

9780060557546


African American plantation owners----Fiction
African American slaveholders----Fiction
Plantation life----Fiction
Slavery----Fiction


Virginia----Fiction


Historical fiction

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