Product Details
- * Pub. Date: November 2008
- * Weight : 0.8500
- * Dimensions : 0.88" H x 9.56" L x 5.88" w
- * Formats : No
- * ISBN : 307264238
- * Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
- * Book Theme : Literary
- * Book Type : Hardcover
Description
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 oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were planted and took root. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh north.
