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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