The Known World
By Edward P. Jones
400 pages; HarperCollins
When this book was published in 2003, it shocked everybody with its depiction of slave-owning blacks before the Civil War. A daring, unusual examination of race. (oprah.com)
400 pages; HarperCollins
When this book was published in 2003, it shocked everybody with its depiction of slave-owning blacks before the Civil War. A daring, unusual examination of race. (oprah.com)