Peter has run away twice.
Will she be able to hide the existence of this child from Tucker?.
Polly, on the other hand, is dark-skinned, like her mother and father, putting Sally in a dangerous situation.
Sally\'s first five children resemble Tucker in coloring.
Sally eventually figures out a way to meet her lover, Lemuel-and gives birth to Polly, Lemuel\'s child.
Over the next few years, Tucker impregnates Sally with five babies in quick succession.
Sally is a 14-year-old slave newly arrived on the farm whom Tucker, now 30, chooses to become his mistress, but Sally loves a fellow slave, 16-year-old Lemuel.
After all, he is the only white person on the place.
His young apprentice, Martin Tucker, is horrified, but grows to learn the useful application of whipping for the most serious offenses, like running.
This time the overseer on the large estate farm in colonial New York decides to use his cat-o-nine-tails on the slave to teach a more thorough lesson.
Peter has run away twice