The known world

Type

Book

Authors

Jones, Edward P.

ISBN 10

0060557559

ISBN 13

9780060557553

Tags

Skönlitteratur, African American slaveholders, Virginia, African American plantation owners, Slavery, Förenta staterna, Plantation life, Slaves, Slaveri, Fiction

Abstract

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.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Historical fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Edward P Jones
ISBN: 0060557559 9780060557553
OCLC Number: 427431772
Notes: Includes "P.S. insights, interviews, & more" section at end of book.
Reprint. Originally published: 2003.
"Winner of the Pulitzer prize"--Cover.
Description: 388 pages, 27 pages ; 21 cm
Responsibility: Edward P. Jones.

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