**National BestsellerOne of *The New York Times* 10 Best Books of the Year** 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
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โ Scribed by Morrison, Toni
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2009,2008
- Tongue
- en-ca
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Edition
- Kindle ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307270440
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โฆ Synopsis
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.
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