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Henry Townsend, a former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor--William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation as well as his own slaves. Henry tragicall...

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Main Author: Jones, Edward P.
Corporate Author: Griot Audio
Other Authors: Free, Kevin R.
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2003, c2003.
Subjects:
African American plantation owners > Fiction.
African American slaveholders > Fiction.
Plantation life > Fiction.
Virginia > Fiction.
Slavery > Fiction.
Slaves > Fiction.
Historical fiction > Virginia.
Audiobooks.
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