
You are Dr Peter Blood, a former soldier turned physician who rides out to treat a wounded rebel and is arrested for treason before the bandage sets. Judge Jeffreys has no interest in the difference between medicine and mercy, and transportation to Barbados replaces the noose only because the colony needs labor more than England needs graves. On the slave block at Bridgetown, Arabella Bishop raises the bid against her father's judgment — buying a surgeon whose oath, she tells you, hasn't been tested yet.
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