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Virginia planter is on his way to assume a diplomatic post in Nicaragua. He is
accompanied by his slave cook, Ginnie, and two of her children (one of whom is his).
Temporarily stranded in Philadelphia when they miss their steamboat, Ginnie makes a thrilling leap of the imagination; it
is the moment she has been waiting for, the moment she decides to be free. In
broad daylight, under the furious gaze of her master, she walks straight out of
slavery into a new life and into a whole new set of compromising positions.
