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The Known World Author: Set in Manchester County, Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War began, Edward P. Jones's debut novel, The Known World, is a masterpiece of overlapping plot lines, time shifts, and heartbreaking details of life under slavery. Caldonia Townsend is an educated black slaveowner, the widow of a well-loved young farmer named Henry, whose parents... more »
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Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer prize. About life as a slave or fee Black n the south around the time of the civil war. Just could not get into it.
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