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The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th century Bristol are explored through the powerful but impossible attraction of well-born Frances and her Yoruban slave, Mehuru.
Bristol in 1787 is booming, from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs ready cash and a well-connected wife. An arranged marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution.
Trading her social contacts for Josiah’s protection, Frances enters the world of the Bristol merchants and finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum and slaves.
Once again Philippa Gregory brings her unique combination of a vivid sense of history and inimitable storytelling skills to illuminate a complex period of our past. Powerful, haunting, intensely disturbing, this is a novel of desire and shame, of individuals, of a society, and of a whole continent devastated by the greed of others.
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Africans, England, Fiction, Married women, Slave trade, Slave-trade, Slaves, History, Man-woman relationships, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, Man-woman relationships, fiction, England, fiction, Married people, fictionPlaces
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A Respectable Trade
January 1999, ISIS Audio Books
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0753104784 9780753104781
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A Respectable Trade
1995, HarperCollinsPublishers
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