Why did John's parents leave England in the first place?
I don't understand that. Why were they leaving England to "spend a year in the tropics", as Jack said, if it wasn't necessary? And if it was necessary, what was the necessity?
shareI don't remember if they make that clear in the movie. The book tells us that Lord Clayton was appointed to a governmental post in the British West African colonies to investigate cases of conscription and slavery of natives by a non-English colonial army (I'm guessing French or German, but I don't know).
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