A Mercy
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were planted and took root.Jacob 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 i…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-47234-2
- EAN: 9780307472342
- Produktnummer: 4027093
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Ausstattung: A-Format Paperback
- Masse: H17.5 cm x B10.3 cm x D1.9 cm 95 g
- Gewicht: 95
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Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
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