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The fate of Florens and the other women is tied to her owner, Jacob Vaark, who accepted her as repayment for a debt despite his alleged disapproval of slavery.
Vaark brings Florens home to his ragtag family: his imported English wife, Rebekka, who is grieving over the death of their young daughter and three sons; Lina, an enslaved Native American; and Sorrow, a young woman left mentally disturbed as a result of being the lone survivor of a smallpox-riddled ship.
Sorrow, whose only sexual experience consists of “silent submission to the slow goings behind a pile of wood” (with a pair of randy boys), or a hurried coupling in a church pew (with a randy deacon), spies the blacksmith and Florens under a hickory tree, “rocking”—“and, unlike female farm animals in heat, she was not standing quietly under the weight and thrust of the male.
 
 
 
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