A Time Away from Time

In the year 1500, Portugal and Spain are competitors in the colonization of the New World and the slave trade in West Africa. Father Martim Rodrigo was appalled when he discovered-upon his return to Portugal at the end of his long career as a parish priest in Africa-how widespread slave trading had become.
He was even more anxious about what he knew of the future-as described to him by a former parishioner who had travelled back to Father Rodrigo's time from the distant future. But Rodrigo had an idea. He still possessed the broken time machine used by his late parishioner. Could the machine be repaired? Could he convince the three Gambian sisters who worked for him to use the machine and travel back in time to put a stop to the Europeans? Stay tuned!