This is Easter Sunday, 1784 in Cap-Francais, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). This is the most refined and the most brutal of all the colonies of the Americas. Follow 24 remarkable individuals as they go about their day: the executioner, the diva, the priest, the governor, the planter's wife, the Voodoo priestess and the abortionist.

All these people are real historical figures from the archives. This is their story,

In this chapter: the doctor treats a sick child.