The scene is teeming zanzibar just before the American civil war, when the isle of cloves was a center of african slave trade. To it comes hero athena hollis, a Boston bluestocking filled with self-righteousness and bent...The scene is teeming zanzibar just before the American civil war, when the isle of cloves was a center of african slave trade. To it comes hero athena hollis, a Boston bluestocking filled with self-righteousness and bent on good deeds.