A mercy
(Book)
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Physical Desc
167 pages ; 25 cm
Status
2nd Floor - Classics
Classics Fic MORRISO
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Classics Fic MORRISO
1 available
First Floor - Fiction
Fic MORRISO
1 available
Fic MORRISO
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Subjects
LC Subjects
African American girls -- Fiction.
African Americans -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.
American fiction -- 21st century.
Diversity -- Race.
Dutch Americans -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.
Enslaved women -- United States -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Interracial adoption -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Novels.
Racism against Black people -- Fiction.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.
African Americans -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.
American fiction -- 21st century.
Diversity -- Race.
Dutch Americans -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.
Enslaved women -- United States -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Interracial adoption -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Novels.
Racism against Black people -- Fiction.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.
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Format
Book
Language
English
UPC
DLW82447
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 6.1, 7 Points
Level 6.1, 7 Points
Notes
General Note
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Description
"In 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 older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives. A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter--a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment." --Publisher's description
Awards
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Morrison, T. (2008). A mercy (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Morrison, Toni. 2008. A Mercy. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Morrison, Toni. A Mercy Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Morrison, Toni. A Mercy First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
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