First of Midnight
by Marjorie Darke
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The year is 1797 and in Bristol a slave called Midnight works as a bare-knuckle boxer. Midnight can't see any way in which he will ever be able to shake off the chains of slavery. However, he feels some hope when he meets the orphan Jess, whose existence is almost as bleak as his and love enters his life. Then some men down at the docks are collecting information about the slave trade to ask questions in Parliament and Midnight realises he can play a part in liberating his people from the scourge of the trade in human cargo.
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