Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. She was born February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. Morrison attended Lorain High School after that she went to Howard University and got her Bachelor's degree in English. Then she received her Masters degree 2 years later from Cornell University. Morrison married Harold Morrison in 1958 and had 2 kids with him named Harold Ford and Slade Kevin. After 6 years of marriage Toni Morrison and Harold Morrison divorced. “ I look very hard for black fiction because I want to participate in developing a canon of black work. We've had the first rush of black entertainment, where blacks were writing for whites, and whites were encouraging this kind of self-flagellation. Now we can get down …show more content…
It has been challenged at Marshall University library for being a “badbook” (M.University).
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A mercy is a book that focuses on the lives of slaves, and slave owners. One of the maine characters is a 16 year old girl slave named Florens. Florens lives and works on Jacob Vaark’s rural New York Farm. Most of the characters are struggling to live because of the disease and danger in the environment. Florens is sent to find a free black man who has knowledge about herbal medicines. “The medicine you know that will make a mistress well. You will hear what I have to say and come back with me” (Morrison, 48).
There is a lot of cultural bias in A Mercy. It took place in Maryland, which is in the south, and there was much cultural bias in the south because of slavery. “By eliminating manumission, gatherings, travel and bearing arms for black people only; by granting license to any white to kill any black for any reason; by compensating owners for a slaves maiming or death, they separated and protected all whites from others forever” (Morrison, 12). What was happening in the time era was that they were just letting whites kill blacks for no reason and get away with it, and thinking it was