Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States,
 when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly
 he takes a small slave girl in part payment from a plantation owner
 for a bad debt. Feeling rejected by her slave mother, 14-year-old
 Florens can read and write and might be useful on his farm.
Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman
at her new master’s house, but later from the handsome blacksmith,
 an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives . . .
A Mercy by Toni Morrision
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