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  A Mercy (Paperback) By (author) Toni Morrison

  

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  Short Description for A MercyOn the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 04 June 2009
  • Format: Paperback 176 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780099502548 ISBN 10: 0099502542
  • Sales rank: 59,547

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Full description for A Mercy

• On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background and now at the age of eight she is taken from her family to begin a new life. She ends up part of Jacob's household, along with his wife Rebekka, Lina their Native American servant and the strange and melancholy Sorrow who was rescued from a shipwreck. Together these women face the trials of their harsh environment as Jacob attempts to carve out a place for himself in the brutal landscape of the north of America in the seventeenth century.