Dec 31, 2009

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...