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The known world / Edward P. Jones.
"Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor, William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow Caldonia succumbs to profound grief; and things begin to fall apart: slaves take to escaping under the cover of night, and families who had once found love beneath the weight of slavery begin to betray one another. Beyond the Townsend estate, the known world also unravels: low-paid white patrollers stand watch as slave "speculators" sell free black people into slavery; and rumor of slave rebellions set white families against slaves who have served them for years." -- Amazon
Record details
- ISBN: 0060557540
- ISBN: 9780060557546
- Physical Description: 388 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: New York : Amistad, 2003.
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| General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 22 73563. |
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| Subject: | African American plantation owners > Fiction. African American slaveholders > Fiction. Plantation life > Fiction. Slavery > Fiction. Enslaved persons > Fiction. Virginia > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Nevada Public Library System.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Nevada Public Library | FIC JON (Text) | 32770114398100 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
