Everything you need to understand or teach A Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory.
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. Josiah is advertising for a governess, though he has no children of his own. The interview is interrupted early by Josiah, who then writes Frances a letter, proposing that she marry...
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