The Black Countess

This is the amazing story of Martha and Harry, set in the late 1800s. She was the daughter of the freed slave Rebecca in Cape Town, and she married Harry, the rejected remittance man from an upper class family in England. It is a true story of two main characters from such widely different backgrounds as to make compatibility, let alone affection, seem impossible. There was their differences of origin, she from the Cape, and he from the great colonial power that was England. They came from different classes, she from a background of slavery, and he from the privilege of the British aristocracy.