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Edward P. Jones 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores a little-known aspect of American history: Black slaveholders in antebellum Virginia. Through the story of Henry Townsend, a former slave who becomes a master himself, Jones examines the moral complexities, contradictions, and devastating im...

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