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The Known World
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Edward P. Jones
cvalley
, January 29, 2010
I read many good books, but the great books linger a long time. This is one. Genuine characters set in a story told with rich prose. The setting is Virginia shortly before the Civil War. Henry and Caldonia Townsend are free blacks who own and work slaves. There are a number of black and Cherokee slave owners in the area and they are no easier a master than their white counterparts. This is not only the heartbreaking story of life as a slave, but a gripping depiction of how tenuous the life and liberty of the freed black man was in this era. This is not an easy read because of the brutality and injustice,nor is it an easy story to tell. Because of reading this book, I was moved to learn more about the lives of freed blacks in the South before the Civil War. A haunting story of slavery unlike any other.
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Kathryn Stockett
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, June 23, 2009
Totally absorbing. It runs the gamut of sadness, fear, indignation, to laugh out loud funny. It was a book that I couldn't put down yet had to at times for relief. It may be overly simplistic and melodramatic in places, but this is one I will not forget.
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