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18.06 Anglo-American literature
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Virginia, fiction
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Slaves
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African americans, fiction
Slavery
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Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for *Paradise Lost* and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation -- as well as o…
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