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
Journalist Neely Tucker described Jones in The Washington Post as "arguably the greatest fiction writer the nation's capital has ever produced". According to biographer Diane Brady of Fortune, Jones has been recognized "as one of the finest writers of his generation". He has been a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia, George Mason University, the University of Maryland, and Princeton University. In 2010, Jones became a professor of literature at George Washington University, where he was previously the Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature.