The Known World by 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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