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A 4 page paper which examines how and why the freed slaves chose to remain in the south in “The Known World” by Edward Jones. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
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a novel that examines the ownership of slaves by African Americans who were once slaves themselves. It is an intriguing book that speaks of the complexity of the institution of
slavery and the complexity of freedom itself. The following paper examines how and why freed slaves would choose to remain in the south after being freed. The Known
World When one thinks of becoming free from slavery one would, in todays mind set, envision that the freed slave would be incredibly eager to leave the region where they
had experienced so much oppression, fleeing to northern states. However, as Jones novel illustrates in many ways, this was the way of life these people had come to know. Many
of them were uneducated and they were quite familiar, if not often comfortable, with the way of life they had grown up in. They did not have the knowledge, we
do today, that addresses prejudices and oppression and points to how immoral such realities were. They were used to such a life and that was part of who they were.
This is a very important fact to understand because it is essentially the premise of the freed slave, David, growing up to emulate a white man, taking on many
slaves of his own. It was the world he knew, the world he understood, and the business he was good in. To leave, to go north, to charter completely new
territory held no promise for him, or no promise he could envision, and so like many other freed slaves, he adjusted to freedom and found a niche that worked for
him in the south. In relationship to other characters, one is a woman, a teacher, named Fern. "She had been educated by a black woman born free who herself
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