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A 4 page essay that analyzes Edward Jones' novel of the antebellum South, The Known World, and Anne Moody autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi, which are very different books that are separated by roughly a hundred years of American history. However, each of these texts share the common factor in that an integral part of each narrative is that it deals with what is the "known world" of their times. Examining these texts from the standpoint of what constitutes the "known world" in each case demonstrates the way in which racism, social injustice and bigotry were engrained in American society in both the antebellum era and the pre-Civil Rights movement South of Anne Moody. No additional sources cited.
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by roughly a hundred years of American history. However, each of these texts share the common factor in that an integral part of each narrative is that it deals with
what is the "known world" of their times. Examining these texts from the standpoint of what constitutes the "known world" in each case demonstrates the way in which racism, social
injustice and bigotry were engrained in American society in both the antebellum era and the pre-Civil Rights movement South of Anne Moody. The "known world" of Jones novel is
one that includes slavery as an integral component. Slavery was so much a part of the economy of the Old South that it is logical to assume that an individual
could not rise to any level of financial security or prominence without participating in this institution. Certainly this is the conclusion that Henry Townsend, a former slave turned slaveowner reached
when he obtained his freedom and began to purchase slaves himself. The novel opens with Henry in the process of dying. He is described as a "black man of thirty-one
years with thirty-three slaves and more than fifty acres of land," which means that Henry is a man of some prominence (Jones 5). While it is true that Henry considered
himself to be a benevolent master, and after his death, his wife Caldonia tries to uphold this legacy, the novel nevertheless shows how the institution of slavery distorts judgement, robbing
slaveowners of their humanity while it simultaneously dehumanizes people into conceptualizations of property. For example, Jones pictures Caledonia considering her husbands legacy, imagining his slaves testifying before God to
the fact that Henry had been good to them. While Caldonia sees herself as being a similarly benevolent master, there are incidents that prove her to be otherwise, which occur
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