Stella Black

Stella Black was the wife of Blaise Black. She was a native of the same unspecified region of Africa as her husband, and, also like her husband, had been captured, enslaved, and sold to a plantation in French Atlantis. They did not belong to the same plantation; after Blaise ran away and fell in with Victor Radcliff, he returned to French Atlantis during Radcliff's campaign there in the Seven Years' War. He and Radcliff liberated the slaves of one population in an effort to incite rebellion. Stella was among these liberated. She and Blaise were delighted to find that they had originally come from the same region and spoke the same first language. Both had despaired of ever having the opportunity to speak their birth-tongue ever again.

Stella and Blaise kept one another's company and married shortly after the war. They lived on Radcliff's farm. They had five children, four of whom survived early childhood. This was an excellent success rate, especially compared to that with which their unfortunate friends the Radcliffs were cursed: The Radcliffs lost all three of their children in infancy.