A Mercy by Toni Morrison

A Mercy by Toni MorrisonIn the 1680s 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. 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

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