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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. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
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- Title
- The Known World
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Edward P. Jones
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0060557540
- ISBN13
- 9780060557546
- Category
- World prose, Contemporary Literary 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. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.