The early years of the 18 Century found European nations as well as America engaging in the centuries old debate of individual freedom verses slavery. Most landowners, tradesmen and shipping companies weighed heavily on the side of slavery. On the opposing side, for individual freedom, were many politicians, theologians and religious groups. All depended upon one's point of view. My story begins on an island in the Caribbean, where a small, forlorn, scraggly group of negro slaves are pawned off on a ship's captain who sails to America, slips into the harbor of a small seaport south of the...