The known world
By: Edward P. Jones.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Amistad
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: African American plantation owners -- Fiction.; African American slaveholders -- Fiction.; Plantation life -- Fiction.; Slavery -- Fiction.; Slaves -- Fiction.; Virginia -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.