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JONES Henry Townsend is a slaveholder in antebellum Manchester County, Virginia. He is also black. After his death, things begin to unravel at his plantation and in the country, revealing the underlying problems and cruelties inherent in slavery.
Like the best fiction, Jones' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel creates a "known world" with fully-realized characters and a compelling plot.
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