The Known World by Edward P. Jones Condition:Very Good each contains breathtaking revelations critically

each contains breathtaking revelations critically important to the other story

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The Known World by Edward P. Jones Condition:Very Good each contains breathtaking revelations criticallyHenry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: slaves take to escaping under