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Prompt: a clear societal standing between the two characters that is frowned upon.
In the late 1700s, Jamaica was alive with the sugar industry, that was built on the backs of black men captured from Africa. A young slave girl, Nyame-ama, 15 is bought and put to work in the house of her new owner, Sir Bailey, a cruel man. Weakened by her circumstances, she thinks all of the white men were the same, until she met Johnson, 16, son of slave driver. Johnson was an anachronist of his time who didn't believe in the slave trade. But what will happen when his father takes the life of another man, and threaten the life of his forbidden love?
Busha- coined term for bishop, also known as an overseer.
Nyame-ama- Ashanti tribe name meaning God's gift.