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020 _a9780006378976
024 _a406987073
050 _aPR6057.R386
082 _a823.914
100 1 _aPhilippa Gregory
245 1 _aA Respectable Trade
260 _bHarperCollins Publishers Limited
300 _a512 pages
520 _aBristol in 1787 is booming, a city where power beckons those who dare to take risks. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs capital and a well-connected wife. Marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah's protection, Frances finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum, and slaves. Into her new world comes Mehuru, once a priest in the ancient African kingdom of Yoruba, now a slave in England. From opposite ends of the earth, despite the difference in status, Mehuru and Frances confront each other and their need for love and liberty.
650 _aHistorical Fiction
999 _c10657
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