The Known World

Pulitzer Prize Winners (83 items)
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This is the kind of book that sticks with you. It’s a story of antebellum Virginia and the slaves and slave masters who live there. In this historical novel, the masters are themselves former slaves who have purchased their own freedom, and their property are people still in servitude. This novel creates a world that we did now know, the world of people who are property of others, their maste... read more

This was an interesting book about slavery, race and families in Manchester County, Virginia. I liked the interactions between the characters, including Moses and Caldonia.