Edward P. Jones Quote
In the spring of 1844, a good many white people in Manchester County remained uneasy about news from other places about slave restlessness that had gone on a few years before. In the North, people called it slave uprisings, but in much of Virginia the word uprisings had an abolitionist undertone and was felt to be too strong for what many slaveowners preferred to characterize as a family squabble, instigated by unknowns not part of the family.
Edward P. Jones
In the spring of 1844, a good many white people in Manchester County remained uneasy about news from other places about slave restlessness that had gone on a few years before. In the North, people called it slave uprisings, but in much of Virginia the word uprisings had an abolitionist undertone and was felt to be too strong for what many slaveowners preferred to characterize as a family squabble, instigated by unknowns not part of the family.
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About Edward P. Jones
Edward Paul Jones (born October 5, 1950) is an American novelist and short story writer. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the International Dublin Literary Award for his 2003 novel The Known World.