Sep 6, 2008

The Passing of Grandison | Character List

Charity Lomax—Dick’s love interest and eventual wife

Colonel Owens—Dick’s father, an owner of a large plantation in Kentucky with hundreds of slaves.

Dick Owens—the colonel’s lazy, lovesick son who tries to win Charity by helping a slave escape

Grandison—a slave who presents himself as happy and content with his life but tricks everyone to win his freedom

Judge Fenderson—an authority figure who comments on Dick’s laziness

Sam Briggs—a cruel slave...