In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its
infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with
a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for
dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part payment for
a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is
Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm.
Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an
older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the
handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding
into their lives.
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