Carlton Todd, the Bondmaster, is a happy man. With his marriage to the young, copper-haired Milly Dobbs, he has a new chance to produce a legitimate, white, male heir to his estate. But from his liaisons of the past, others come to stake their claims. Ella, his slave mistress, schemes wit all her black magic to insure that her grandson Brett inherits Roxborough. Laura, Carlton's runaway daugther, returns.. and his half-black son Hayes. And, up in the mountains, Mingoson, offspring of Carlton's first wife, incites the outlaw blacks to join him in attacking Roxborough in bloody revenge against the family who bred his people like beasts- for sale...