They took her around the back of the office building, where Suggs was waiting with one of the plantation horses. There was a brief exchange of words, and a small bag of money was dropped in Suggs’s hands. She was tossed across the horse’s back, her dress hiked up and her legs exposed, the disgusting man climbing up behind her. The big man who’d held her disappeared back into the stock room.

She looked back at Suggs, who had already turned away, counting the money in the small ...