![]() It takes very little time for Frances to realize that she has come to love this man who remains strong and proud despite his current situation. ![]() ![]() He is highly intelligent and soon becomes the acknowledged leader, learning the language quickly to become something of an interpreter between those less adept at the language and their new owners, including Frances.įrances and Mehuru spend a great deal of time together and their attraction is almost immediate and is mutual. One of the men, Mehuru, is trained as a priest in Africa and lived himself as a member of the royal court. The first batch of slaves arrives, two men, two very young boys, and a total of thirteen people. Frances still doesn't know the reason Josiah had sought a governess and it's much later that she learns that she is to be responsible for teaching slaves, newly captured and arrived from Africa, so that they can be sold at a premium rate as English house servants. The interview is interrupted early by Josiah, who then writes Frances a letter, proposing that she marry him. ![]() ![]() Josiah is advertising for a governess, though he has no children of his own. Frances Scott is an orphan who is living as a governess and on the kindness of her aunt and uncle, Lord and Lady Scott, when she sees an advertisement posted by Josiah Cole, a merchant involved in the slave trade. ![]()
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