ESSAY ON: Edward Jones/The Known World

Number of Pages 3

This research paper: A 3 page book review, which focuses on ethical issues pertaining to slavery. Contemporary society’s perspective of this institution is understood to be that slavery is purely evil. In his novel The Known World, Edward Jones examines a little known fact of Southern antebellum society, which is that freed blacks were often slaveholders themselves, and the novel addresses the complex question of whether black slave owners differed in any appreciably way from their white counterparts. No additional sources cited.


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