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Plot
The Known World has no real plot; rather, it glides back and forth in time, zooming in on the lives of its characters. Set in fictional Manchester County, Virginia, the story begins with the premature death of Henry Townsend. A former slave whose freedom is bought by his father Augustus, Townsend comes to own thirty-three slaves. In one scene, he admits to making his first purchase, and his parents are horrified. (Augustus, a carpenter and walking-stick carver, once used a boxed shipment of his sticks to smuggle a runaway slave to freedom, a vignette that echoes the true story of Henry Box Brown.) When Henry tells Augustus of his purchase, the father replies, “You could not have hurt me more if you had cut off my arms and my legs.” He then attacks Henry with one of his sticks, breaking his shoulder.
Whatâs on TV This Week: âSoul of a Nationâ and âGhostbustersâ
A newsmagazine featuring a look at Black life in America premieres on ABC. And the âBack to the Futureâ trilogy airs on AMC.
March 1, 2021
Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, March 1-7. Details and times are subject to change.
Monday
RUTH: JUSTICE GINSBURG IN HER OWN WORDS (2021) 9 p.m. on Starz. While this documentary does contain the words of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died in September, there are other voices as well. One of them is Jennifer Carroll Foy, who was able to attend Virginia Military Institute following the United States v. Virginia Supreme Court decision which led to the abolishment of the collegeâs male-only admissions policy. Another is Lilly Ledbetter, who lost an employee discrimination case â for which Justice Ginsburg wrote th
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