1805

The unsettled consequences of the 1804 Haitian revolution reverberate northward to America, where the imminent end of the Atlantic Slave Trade is seen as fait accompli to the ruling elite. In the North, the last states take their first steps toward abolishing chattel slavery; though it will be generations before it will free the last of their slaves. For Basammer, a slave on Mr. Jared Corey's Virginia plantation, that sounds close enough to freedom; and it's but a few days' march away, just across the Mason-Dixon line. He escapes with his secret wife Marfay, leaving the vainglorious Mr. Corey with none to punish (or profit from) but those that remain. The journey of Basammer and Marfay tests their love, pitting it against their morality as they battle both the laws of nature and the laws of man.