Necessary Sins (Lazare Family Saga #1)

Part I Abattoir

PART I

ABATTOIR

Saint-Domingue, French West Indies;

Paris, France;

and Charleston, South Carolina

You will see all my blood flow before I consent to your freedom, because your slavery, my fortune, and my happiness are inseparable.

— Saint-Domingue planter Prudent Boisgerard, 1793 letter