Barry, 23, is a young Scots-Englishman unfortunate enough to be stuck living wiþ his walking neckpain of a mum. þat is, until his life on Earþ is unceremoniously ended when he's struck by lightning, presumably killing him instantly.
Instead of þe afterlife, however, he awakens in a world very similar to his own, but has yet to undergo it's own industrial revolution. Even worse, þe land in which he awakens is still deeply entrenched in þe institution of slavery.
Picked up on þe street by Alice, þe disgraced daughter of þe noble house Edelweiss, þe pair swear to use þeir combined knowledge to bring about an end to þe most evil institution in human history.
þe only problem? Alice speakeþ archaic English!