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Response To, “The Known World�
Edward P. Jones' novel, The Known World, touches on a topic that most African Americans of today's society choose not to speak about. It tells a story of how, during the time of slavery, there were free blacks that owned and ruled slaves. He brings to light the fact that blacks were not only oppressed by whites but also by their own people. It seems as though free blacks would have paved the way for slaves to acquire freedom, but the story exemplifies how circumstances did not always turn out this way. The whole notion of free blacks owning slaves makes the reader wonder what type of mindset free blacks could have had in order to enslave their own people. It then initiates the reader's curiosity as to the type of mindset of the people who remained enslaved by their own kind.
Being free and being enslaved are two words that continuously come to mind while reading this novel. By definition being free means to, “not be under the control......

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