The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Known World

Edward P. Jones

The Known World

Edward P. Jones

388 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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When a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery.

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