(soft music) - Robert Goodwin comes from England to this plantation to oversee it and to also bring abolition and a change of consciousness to Jamaica.

- He's kind of this, you know, blonde haired, blue eyed gentleman.

Caroline takes a fancy to him and thinks that they're of the same world and thinks that it would be inevitable that they would fall in love.

- Leave us Margaret.

- It's very interesting because Caroline is of the old mind that slaves are ignorant and to be kept at bay, but because of her interest in Robert, she pretends to be of his mind.

And then July allegiant to the view that a slave should be free, gets into this interesting triangle of affection.

- Caroline had complete lack of self-awareness, doesn't realize how awful she is as a person.

- I think Caroline and Robert sort of exist in different planes of like energy as well.

There's a clash of personality.

- He very quickly sees the qualities in July that make her just irresistible to him and he falls madly in love with her.

- I can't hide it from you.

I love you.

- And I think a large part of that is to do with the fact that he knows he shouldn't.

- Robert comes and comes this get out of jail free card and I think it doesn't start off as love for July.

It starts off as an escape route.

- Where will you be going?

- Fishing.

- To prosper herself, I think she starts to become more cunning.

- Yeah, you play him like a fiddle.

- Yeah.

- That's what I love about it is that he turns up with that expectation that as soon as he meets one of the workers, he's going to save them and they're all going to cry on his shoulder and tell him all these things.

- That he's a great hero.

- Exactly.

And July realizes that 'cause she's wicked smart.

She realizes that instantly.

- In that time, interaction is heightened because the quorum and men and women in separation, all those things, you know, I think when you do connect, it's more intense.

There's something about love that can really melt pain.

- Oh, I didn't tell you.

I am to be married by Robert Goodwin.

- They are essentially sharing a man together.

And you have a woman who is so used to barking orders at July and is now being asked to share the dining room table with this woman.

- Come sit down.

- No, no, no, no.

- And also knowing that July has the real love.

- You are my true wife, July.

- And that's making, you know, Caroline incredibly jealous and full of resentment and full of bitterness and completely powerless.

- But July becomes a woman who needs to make certain choices even at the mercy of Caroline Tart.

It's a power struggle that they're in and it's constantly flipping.

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