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A Respectable Trade: With Emma Fielding, Anna Massey, Warren Clarke, Ariyon Bakare. 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.
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- Emma Fielding, Anna Massey, Warren Clarke
A Respectable Trade is a 1995 historical novel by Philippa Gregory set in the Bristol docks in 1787. Adaptation. Gregory adapted her work into a four-part TV serial which was broadcast by the BBC in 1998 and by the PBS in the United States in the fall of 1999.
Dec 23, 1994 · 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.
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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.
Feb 1, 2007 · 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.
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Feb 1, 2007 · He and his sister Sarah have done all they can with their three modest vessels—they kidnap Africans, trade them for sugar and rum in the West Indies, then sell the goods in England—but since much of the better trade is denied them because of their class, Josiah decides to marry up.
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.
