Title A mercy / Toni Morrison

Edition First Vintage International edition Published New York : Vintage International, 2009 New York : Vintage International, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2009 ©2008

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Description 195 pages ; 21 cm Summary In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith, in a novel set in late seventeenth-century America Notes Previous published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008 New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year, 2008 Subject African American girls -- Fiction. African Americans -- Fiction. Interracial adoption -- Fiction. Prejudices -- Fiction. Racism -- Fiction. Slavery -- Fiction. SUBJECT United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100177 Genre/Form Fiction. LC no. 2009464561 ISBN 0307276767 9780307276766

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