Volume II Issue IV October-December 2022

Name of Author : Chithra C A, Dr. S Lekshmi Devi

Title of the paper : Native Africans in America: Sketches of Oppression and Plantation Slavery posed in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

Abstract: The first aboriginal native people or autochthonous people are culturally distinct ethnic groups who are native to a place that has already been colonized and settled by another ethnic group. A Mercy’s setting bypasses both the nineteenth and the twentieth century that interrogates the life of American Slave through Lina, the central character .This paper also exposes the history of the final decade of the seventeenth century in America during the period of plantation slavery .Within the construct of plantation slavery, interactions between Native Americans and Africans during that period was varied and complex. This paper aims at plunging into the boundless and nebulous origin and plantation of slavery and human servitude in America.

Keywords : Indigenous, Free Blacks, Servitude, Aboriginal, Autochthonous

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Page No. : 58-61