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A Mercy (1st Edition) by Toni Morrison Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-307-26423-8 / 0307264238 ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26423-7 / 9780307264237 A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and op |