Captain Jim Lovett, back from a slave run, meets and marries Nancy Marlowe. He determines to quit the slave trade and buy a plantation in Jamaica. He orders his crew discharged, but his first mate, Jack Thompson disobeys and takes the ship to sea on another expedition with Lovett, Allen, and the slave crew aboard without Lovett's knowledge. Once at sea the crew takes the ship from Lovett, and forces him to sail to Africa by threats to his wife. In Africa they load a cargo of slaves and leave Lovett ashore, but he makes it back to the ship and captures the wheel, chart house, and guns. He makes for the British colony of
Saint Helena, where he is arrested as a slaver. Thompson attempts to trick Lovett using Swifty, but he remains loyal. The climax ends with the ship burning, Thompson and most of the crew dead, and the slaves freed. Lovett is tried, but is freed after an appeal by his wife. In the end the couple and Swifty arrive in Jamaica to begin life at the plantation. ==Cast==