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" The known world / "
Edward P. Jones.
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BL
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Record Number
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871777
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Main Entry
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Jones, Edward P.
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Title & Author
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The known world /\ Edward P. Jones.
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Edition Statement
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1st edition.
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Publication Statement
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New York :: Amistad,, ©2003.
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Series Statement
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Pulitzer Prize
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Page. NO
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388 pages ;; 24 cm
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ISBN
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0060557540
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: 0060557559
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: 096513671X
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: 9780060557546
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: 9780060557553
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: 9780965136716
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Contents
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The known world (novel) -- P.S.: An interview with Edward P Jones -- "The known world" dramatis personae -- "The girl who raised pigeons" (short story.).
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Abstract
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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.
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Robbins, William (Fictitious character)
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Townsend, Caldonia (Fictitious character)
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African American plantation owners, Fiction.
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African American slaveholders, Fiction.
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Plantation life, Fiction.
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Slavery, Fiction.
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Slaves, Fiction.
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Plantation life, Fiction.
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African American plantation owners-Fiction.
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18.06 Anglo-American literature.
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African American plantation owners.
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African American slaveholders.
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African Americans, Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Plantation life, Fiction.
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Plantation life.
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Plantations, Fiction.
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Slavery, Fiction.
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Slavery.
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Slaves, Fiction.
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Slaves.
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Virginia, Fiction.
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Virginia, Fiction.
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Virginia, Fiction.
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Subject
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Virginia.
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Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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LC Classification
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PS3560.O4813K58 2003
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NLM classification
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18.06bcl
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HU 9800rvk
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