The Mercy Seat

On the south exotic fruit trees
 Blood on the leaves and blood over the roots
 Black bodies swinging a breeze with the South
 Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
 
 In 1939, she sang the famous American singer Billie Holiday this song titled ‘strange fruit’ and by the poet Abel Maropoul. When you read this novel, you will know that this exotic fruit is only the bodies of human beings has executed a rowdy criminal gangs and eggs paid by hatred and bigotry against blacks and ethnic blind, in that period of American history known as the era of Jim Crow. And which it prevailed in a series of laws devoted to the principle of apartheid.
 American writer Elizabeth Winthrop dating back to that era in the novel ‘Mercy chair’ which takes place in October of 1943, to address the subject is painful itself, brilliantly literary, historical, and the secretariat of the paint through a scene an American Southerner pure, entitled: people live their pain and human suffering forms different in an environment of racial discrimination, extreme heat for the month of October, the cotton season, and where the second World war mill circle somewhere, young people and adopting new returns them in coffins or in letters Naoh.