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