Excerpt from The Wasp

Captain Sterling, a wealthy planter of Nevis in the West Indies, had purchased two hundred male factors from the historic prison and was now march ing them to Billingsgate, off which lay the brig Good Cheer, all ready for her freight of hopeless humanity and her long voyage to the south and west.

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