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Feb 1, 2007 · A Respectable Trade (Historical Novels) Kindle Edition. From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory comes a story about the devastating consequences of the slave trade in 19th century England. Bristol in 1787 is booming, a city where power beckons those who dare to take risks.
Nov 5, 2016 · A Respectable Trade takes place in the port city of Bristol in 1787. The city—indeed much of the kingdom—thrives on the slave trade, while elsewhere William Wilberforce is just beginning his decades’ long campaign for the abolition of the trade. Into this mix comes gently-bred Frances, forced by economic necessity to marry a merchant far below her station. Frances is confronted for the first time with the realities of slavery in Bristol.
Feb 8, 2007 · A Respectable Trade . Chapter One. Mehuru woke at dawn with the air cool on his outstretched body. He opened his eyes in the half darkness and sniffed the air as if the light wind might bring him some strange scent. His dream, an uneasy vision of a ship slipping her anchor in shadows and sailing quietly down a deep rocky gorge, was with him still.
Feb 1, 2007 · At this point, more than half a century’s worth of fiction and film has been inspired by the Holocaust—a weighty and imposing tradition. Hunter, it seems, hasn’t been able to break free from her dependence on it. Too beholden to sentimentality and cliché, this novel fails to establish a uniquely realized perspective. 0.
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.
512 pages. January 2007. The lucrative slave trade is the topic of Gregory’s reissued novel, set in Bristol, England in the prosperous late eighteenth century. The merchant class is expanding trade boundaries, exporting and importing plantation goods, the most enormous profits from trafficking in humans plundered from the Dark Continent.
A Respectable Trade Philippa Gregory. Touchstone Books, $16 (488pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-7254-4. This moral spellbinder, set in Bristol, England, in the slave-trading 1780s, is being freshly issued a ...
