TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Edward P.
TI  - The known world
SN  - 0060557540
AV  - PS3560.O4813 K58 2003
U1  - 813/.54 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Amistad
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Plantations
KW  - Plantation life
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Virginia
N1  - Wilson's Fiction, March 2006; Library Journal Starred, August 2003; Booklist starred, September 2003; Kirkus Starred, July 2003; New York Times, December 2003; Multicultural Review, June 2004; Adult; Follett Library Resources
N2  - Henry Townsend, a African farmer and former slave, is befriended by the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County and becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves
ER  -