Bristol in 1787 is booming, from its stinking docks to its elegant new. But tensions are mounting and Mehuru and the other slaves are prepared to risk everything for their freedom. From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl. Mobil Masterpiece Theatre (10/25/98), Respectable Trade. Lonely in her new life married to a boorish and uneducated husband with whom she has little in common, Frances finds herself increasingly drawn to Mehuru and he to her. Trading her social contacts for Josiahs protection, Frances finds her life and fortune. Among the slaves is the educated and charismatic Mehuru (Ariyon Bakare). Trading her social contacts for Josiah's protection, Frances enters the world of the Bristol merchants and finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum and slaves. An arranged marriage to Frances Scott (Emma Fielding) is a mutually convenient solution. Adaptation Gregory adapted her work into a four-part TV serial which was broadcast by the BBC in 1998 and by the PBS in the United States in the fall of 1999. But he needs ready cash and a well-connected wife. A Respectable Trade is a 1995 historical novel by Philippa Gregory set in the Bristol docks in 1787. Into her new world comes Mehuru, once a priest in the ancient African kingdom of Yoruba, now a slave in England.

Trading her social contacts for Josiah's protection, Frances finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum, and slaves. Josiah Cole (Warren Clarke), a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. Marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Bristol in 1787 is booming, from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th century Bristol are explored through the powerful but impossible attraction of well-born Frances and her Yoruban slave, Mehuru.

A respectable trade