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Toni Morrison: A Mercy

In the 1680os the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North.
ISBN: 9780307472342
Author: Toni Morrison
Page: 167
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2008
Format: Book
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS
Language: English

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Stock: 1-10 copies

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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, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at er new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.

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