Publisher's Synopsis
Five stories of a young man's journey from an apprentice in Bristol, England, to the tobacco farms of seventeenth century Virginia. John Cleburne's apprenticeship ends when his master chooses a new life in Virginia. They endure a perilous journey across the Atlantic and begin tobacco farming in an unstable frontier. John learns of illicit trading with natives, and finally, he and his friends are pulled into a rebellion against the Virginia government one hundred years before the American Revolution. He learns the traditions of the new colonial society, and its class restrictions; in Virginia, though, John learns that even an indentured servant can rise to be a great tobacco farmer.
