A Mercy
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Author: Toni Morrison
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 176
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class division, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were carefully planted and took root. acob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a smallholding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in flesh , he takes a small slave girl, in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, with the hands of a slave and the feet of a Portuguese lady , who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens is hungry for love, at first from the older servant woman at her new master s house; but later, when she s sixteen, from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives nd all of them have stories- Lina, the native American servant, whose tribe was decimated by smallpox; their mistress Rebekka, herself a victim of religious fervour back in England; young Sorrow, daughter of a sea captain who s spent too many years at sea to be quite normal; and, finally, there s Florens s own mother back home in Maryland. This is their pli
Author: Toni Morrison
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 176
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class division, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were carefully planted and took root. acob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a smallholding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in flesh , he takes a small slave girl, in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, with the hands of a slave and the feet of a Portuguese lady , who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens is hungry for love, at first from the older servant woman at her new master s house; but later, when she s sixteen, from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives nd all of them have stories- Lina, the native American servant, whose tribe was decimated by smallpox; their mistress Rebekka, herself a victim of religious fervour back in England; young Sorrow, daughter of a sea captain who s spent too many years at sea to be quite normal; and, finally, there s Florens s own mother back home in Maryland. This is their pli
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Toni Morrison
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 176
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class division, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were carefully planted and took root. acob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a smallholding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in flesh , he takes a small slave girl, in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, with the hands of a slave and the feet of a Portuguese lady , who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens is hungry for love, at first from the older servant woman at her new master s house; but later, when she s sixteen, from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives nd all of them have stories- Lina, the native American servant, whose tribe was decimated by smallpox; their mistress Rebekka, herself a victim of religious fervour back in England; young Sorrow, daughter of a sea captain who s spent too many years at sea to be quite normal; and, finally, there s Florens s own mother back home in Maryland. This is their pli
Author: Toni Morrison
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 176
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class division, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were carefully planted and took root. acob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a smallholding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in flesh , he takes a small slave girl, in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, with the hands of a slave and the feet of a Portuguese lady , who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens is hungry for love, at first from the older servant woman at her new master s house; but later, when she s sixteen, from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives nd all of them have stories- Lina, the native American servant, whose tribe was decimated by smallpox; their mistress Rebekka, herself a victim of religious fervour back in England; young Sorrow, daughter of a sea captain who s spent too many years at sea to be quite normal; and, finally, there s Florens s own mother back home in Maryland. This is their pli