Wormsloe Plantation
You smell Wormsloe before you see it. The stench of sweat, filth, blood, and packed bodies carries for a considerable distance, long before the winding dirt roads and fields of corn come into view. From a distance, the plantation looks almost bucolic: crops swaying in the breeze, wooden buildings set among the fields, a picture of agricultural productivity. Each step closer reveals the truth. The bodies of the disobedient swing from tree branches. The wooden buildings are slave pens. The agricultural output is measured in human beings.
Wormsloe Plantation is the largest slave-breeding operation in the southern Rum Coast. Run by Jeremiah Walker, the plantation does not merely capture slaves; it grows them from birth. Different strains are bred for different purposes: farmhands, cooks, soldiers, and flesh for Full Dead and Semper Mort consumption. Multiple slave pens are organized by strain and purpose, with training facilities dedicated to producing the specific skills each buyer requires. Weekly Friday auctions draw traders from across the region, and the plantation is the only operation in the south breeding so many varieties in one location.
Walker looks like someone's grandfather. Grey hair, spectacles, a fit frame from daily patrols of his plantation, and a ready joke or kind word for every visitor. The appearance masks a man who is ruthless in management and a master manipulator of both his slaves and the people who buy them. The Flesh Farmers who work under him are recognizable by their ropes, handcuffs, whips, and guns. They travel with caravans of slaves for sale and are quick to dismiss anyone threatening their trade. Anyone who attempts to steal a slave ends up hanging alongside the disobedient.
The plantation largely sustains itself on food grown by slave labor, importing from Macon during lean times. Rumors persist that some of the meat pies are not made from livestock. Talk of a slave escape route has surfaced, though the Flesh Farmers are quick to suppress any discussion of it. Wormsloe operates near Skidaway Harbor, with slaves transiting through the pirate port on their way to the Drowned City and other buyers. The institution runs on efficiency, cruelty, and the indifference of a region that views the slave trade as an unremarkable fact of life.
Wormsloe Plantation is the largest slave-breeding operation in the southern Rum Coast. Run by Jeremiah Walker, the plantation does not merely capture slaves; it grows them from birth. Different strains are bred for different purposes: farmhands, cooks, soldiers, and flesh for Full Dead and Semper Mort consumption. Multiple slave pens are organized by strain and purpose, with training facilities dedicated to producing the specific skills each buyer requires. Weekly Friday auctions draw traders from across the region, and the plantation is the only operation in the south breeding so many varieties in one location.
Walker looks like someone's grandfather. Grey hair, spectacles, a fit frame from daily patrols of his plantation, and a ready joke or kind word for every visitor. The appearance masks a man who is ruthless in management and a master manipulator of both his slaves and the people who buy them. The Flesh Farmers who work under him are recognizable by their ropes, handcuffs, whips, and guns. They travel with caravans of slaves for sale and are quick to dismiss anyone threatening their trade. Anyone who attempts to steal a slave ends up hanging alongside the disobedient.
The plantation largely sustains itself on food grown by slave labor, importing from Macon during lean times. Rumors persist that some of the meat pies are not made from livestock. Talk of a slave escape route has surfaced, though the Flesh Farmers are quick to suppress any discussion of it. Wormsloe operates near Skidaway Harbor, with slaves transiting through the pirate port on their way to the Drowned City and other buyers. The institution runs on efficiency, cruelty, and the indifference of a region that views the slave trade as an unremarkable fact of life.
