A lusty chronicle of plantation life in
eighteenth-century Jamaica; a saga of
three families-Vane, Wells and Lons-
dale-whose English roots are inextri-
cably grounded in the cane and coffee-
rich land that was their refuge from
Cromwell.
Both the Vanes and the Lonsdales
are threatcned by ever-increasing at-
tempts to disenfranchise free men of col-
ored blood. Upon his death ten years
earlier, Robert Vane, builder of one of
the island s most prosperous plantations,
had named his illegitimate, half-caste
son, Seth, as the rightful heir to the
Vane holdings; Seth Vane now rules
the vast plantation empire despite at-
tempts by his younger brother, Matt, to
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