Leading Characters of the Story
Scene: The Foothills of North Carolina—Boston—New York Time: From 1865 to 1900
Charles Gaston | Who dreams of a Governor's Mansion |
Sallie Worth | A daughter of the old fashioned South |
Gen. Daniel Worth | Her father |
Mrs. Worth | Sallie's mother |
The Rev. John Durham | A preacher who threw his life away |
Mrs. Durham | Of the Southern Army that never surrendered |
Tom Camp | A one-legged Confederate soldier |
Flora | Tom's little daughter |
Simon Legree | Ex-slave driver and Reconstruction leader |
Allan McLeod | A Scalawag |
Hon. Everett Lowell | Member of Congress from Boston |
Helen Lowell | His daughter |
Miss Susan Walker | A maiden of Boston |
Major Stuart Dameron | Chief of the Ku Klux Klan |
Hose Norman | A dare-devil poor white man |
Nelse | A black hero of the old régime |
Aunt Eve | His wife—"a respectable woman." |
Hon. Tim Shelby | Political boss of the new era |
Hon. Pete Sawyer | Sold seven times, got the money once |
George Harris, Jr | An Educated Negro, son of Eliza |
Dick | An unsolved riddle |