The brig Sea-Witch was carrying a precious cargo over the Atlantic. A cargo that lined the pockets of American landowners and English traders with tainted money. It was a cargo of the most degrading kind - black human flesh - and one that threatened to explode at any moment.

Young Adam Holt saw the brutal actions of the corrupt seamen aboard Sea-Witch. He watched, helpless, the rape of young African women, and the indiscriminate flogging of their menfolk. He could not avoid the stinking, fever-ridden conditions of their slavery.