A Good Place

In the late summer of 1622 seven people lived on a hopeful plantation they called Powell's Fifty. The owners, the Powell family, were a war-weary soldier, a girl raised in the colony's wilderness and an English baker's daughter. Their indentured servants were a younger son of an old Catholic English family, an undersized eight-year-old orphan of Welsh servants, and an embittered Puritan prisoner who had been transported against his will. The Powells also had a slave, Isaiah--a Mannahoac Ind...