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E-Book exclusive extras: "Inside The Known World: An Interview with Edward P. Jones"; Reading Group GuideHenry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful 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 at their plantation: 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 rumors of slave rebellions set white families against slaves who have served them for years.An ambitious, luminously written novel that ranges seamlessly between the past and future and back again to the present, The Known World weaves together the lives of freed and enslaved blacks, whites, and Indians -- and allows all of us a deeper understanding of the enduring multidimensional world created by the institution of slavery.
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Fiction, Esclavitud, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, African American slaveholders, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=2003, Historical fiction, Vida en la plantación, African American plantation owners, Dueños de plantaciones afronorteamericanos, Slavery, Novela histórica, open_syllabus_project, Slaves, Plantation life, Dueños de esclavos afronorteamericanos, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction, Esclavos, Ficción, African Americans, African American plantation owners-Fiction, Plantations, African American Novel And Short Story, Fiction - General, Spanish: Adult Fiction, General, Historical - General, Propriétaires d'esclaves noirs américains, Esclaves, Esclavage, Vie dans les plantations, Romans, nouvelles, 18.06 Anglo-American literature, Fiction, historical, African americans, fiction, Slaves, fiction, Virginia, fiction, Fiction, historical, generalPlaces
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Translation of: The known world.
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