Answer:
"The mercy" reveals that white women had a social condition as fragile as that of slaves and this seemed new to me, as I always thought that they had more advantageous positions.
Explanation:
"A mercy" presents an immersive account of colonial America and what the relationships between people were like. Although the author focuses on the weakened condition of blacks within society, he presents one as white women also had social positions as weakened as blacks. White women had no options for the future, other than becoming a wife, servant or prostitute, none of which served to free them from suffering the most diverse types of abuse and deprivation, which in a way equaled them with blacks. This is a surprising and new factor about the colonies and the society that lived there.
