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Mercy
Toni Morrison
Chatto and Windus
Fiction
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class division, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred took root. Morrison seeks to reveal the lives of the men and women who lived in slavery in these times. At its heart, A Mercy is an ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter in a violent ad-hoc world - a world where acts of mercy, like everything else, have unforeseen consequences.
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