01327cam a2200325 4500 178963038 TxAuBib 20070716120000.0 061204t20062003||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780061159176 0061159174 ICrlF ICrlF ICrlF TxAuBib Jones, Edward P. The known world [Paperback] / Edward P. Jones. Amistad deluxe ed. New York : Amistad, 2006. ©2003. 388 p. ; 21 cm. In antebellum Virginia, young slave Henry Townsend stays with his powerful white owner after his parents buy his freedom, soon becoming a slave owner himself, but when he dies in his thirties, his worst fears come true as his widow, Caldonia, takes over the plantation and it slips into chaos. Adult Follett Library Resources. African American plantation owners Fiction. African American slaveholders Fiction. Plantation life Fiction. Slavery Fiction. Slaves Fiction. African Americans Fiction. Plantations Fiction. Virginia Fiction. Historical fiction.