A Respectable Trade [Import] [Hardcover]

PHILIPPA GREGORY (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 600 pages
• Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS (1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0002241595
• ISBN-13: 978-0002241595
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,349,783 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Respectable Trade - A must read, September 12, 2010

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"A Respectable Trade", purchased from Amazo is set in18th century England and the slave trade: Mehuru an important
member of his African nation who is captured and brought to England on a slave ship sold into slavery and is purchased by a trader, Josiah Cole Josiah Cole, an ordinary trader has ambitions of rising above his station in Bristol's aristocratic society. He marries Frances Scott, a penniless aristocrat and through her sees himself becoming a man of importance.
A Respectable Trade is the fascinating look into the intimate lives of these three, woven into a tale of success, failure and the heartbreak of a doomed love affair.