"Edward P. Jones's novel (04 Pulitzer), ''The Known World,'' opens with the death of a master of 33 slaves in antebellum Virginia...

...In 1855 in Manchester County, Va. (a fictional place standing in for an actual historical landscape), we learn that ''there were 34 free black families . . . and eight of those free families owned slaves.''

Anybody know what actual historical landscape Manchester County is standing in for?
- jimlouis 4-08-2004 11:25 pm





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