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The Price of Freedom: Caldonia & Moses in Edward P. Jones’ “The Known World”

In Edward P. Jones’ The Known World the relationship between Caldonia Townsend, the wife and widow of Henry Townsend, and Henry’s overseer, Moses, symbolizes the psychological fallout that occurs, that is inherent, when one individual chooses to harbor the life of another in an effort to ascertain financial freedom. From the outset Jones presents Caldonia

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