The known world /

The known world

Edward P Jones
Book - 2003

Henry Townsend, a 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 his own slaves. Henry tragically fails to understand the fundamental flaws in his thinking that he can be a better slave master than a white man.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Edward P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Amistad, 2003.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
African American plantation owners > Fiction.
African American slaveholders > Fiction.
Plantation life > Fiction.
Slavery > Fiction.
Slaves > Fiction.
Pulitzer Prizes.
Virginia > Fiction.
Historical fiction.

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