Joint Venture

It was a time of dire uncertainty for Richard and Isabella Pace, a young
couple on their way to Jamestown in the colony of Virginia. Passing
through London, they meet Shakespeare. Fleeing her angry family, they
joined the Great Resupply Fleet of 1610. Forced to board separate
vessels to avoid being spotted, their ships are dispersed by a hurricane.
The pregnant Isabella arrives safely in the colony, but Richard's craft is
run aground off Bermuda.

She experiences the Starving Time when Pawhattan imposes a trade
embargo on the "cut throat" English, but meets and is befriended by
Pocahantas. Richard finally arrives in Jamestown with his new friend
John Rolfe to rejoin his Isabella and their new son George.With Rolfe,
he ventures into tobacco planting, which does not prove successful
until a boat load of slaves are traded for provisions by Dutch seamen.
The slaves are expert tobacco men. They are indentured. Richard
comes home with one named Hector. Isabella disapproves but adapts.
They soon prosper and build a house across the James river.

Afterwards relationships between planters and natives deteriorate.
After Pawattan's death and burial the natives attempt to massacre the
colonists on Good Friday. Richard and Isabella survive.