Never Pleasing to the World

<p>Born into the richest planter family in the Northern Neck of Virginia Robert Carter III's life is anything but typical. A neighbor of George Washington and the Lees of Stratford Hall Carter is destined to be a gentleman farmer slaveholder and leader in the church militia court and government. Carter has no idea that one day he will rebel against everything he is taught.</p><p>While growing up he spends time with his best friend and personal slave Sam Harrison who provides him with a first-hand look into his less than ideal life. After Carter comes of age he escapes to London where he encounters the Enlightenment. At age twenty-three he returns home to take over his eighteen plantations and live a productive life. But as a chain of events drives him to chart new territory for his time Carter is ultimately led to make a decision that shocks and alienates his class and his family and forever changes the lives of over five hundred people.</p><p><i>Never Pleasing to the World</i> is the story of how a child of privilege influenced by slaves long before the Civil War creates a community of freed slaves in the most powerful state in the South.</p>