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The known world / Edward P. Jones.

Summary:

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.

Item details

ISBN: 0060557540
ISBN: 9780060557546
ISBN: 0060557559
ISBN: 9780060557553
Physical Description: 388 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Amistad, ©2003.

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Awards Note:

Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2004.

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African American plantation owners > Fiction.
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Slaves > Fiction.
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African American slaveholders.
Plantation life.
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Genre:

Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.

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