![]() It is a fascinating place with peculiar problems and characters I cried for on more than one occasion. It took me nearly 2 months to finish the book's 388 pages. It was the world, a world where I could taste the soil I might till and the women I might marry and the terrible choices I might be faced with, that put it's claws in me and refused to let go. It was not so much the story of Henry Townsend, a black slave owner, and all the people that his death allows us to meet that engaged me. ![]() Jones creates feels as real and surreal as any factual history of slavery you've read. The complicated pre-civil war Southern society that Edward P. After reading The Known World, however, you'd be forgiven if you thought you could take a tour of it's plantations and slave cemetaries on your vacation to colonial Williamsburg. ![]() ![]() Manchester County, Virginia doesn't exist. ![]()
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