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The known world / Edward P. Jones.

Jones, Edward P. (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780060557553
  • ISBN: 0060557559
  • ISBN: 9780061159176
  • ISBN: 0061159174
  • Physical Description: 388 pages, 28 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: Amistad deluxe edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Amistad, 2006.

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Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 22 73563.

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African American plantation owners > Fiction.
African American slaveholders > Fiction.
Plantation life > Fiction.
Slavery > Fiction.
Enslaved persons > Fiction.
Virginia > Fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.

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