Toni Morrison - Mercy
Toni Morrison - Mercy National BestsellerOne of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearIn the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Despite his distaste for dealing in…
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Toni Morrison - Mercy
National BestsellerOne of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearIn the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. 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. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North.
Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a