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Marguerite “Thisbe” Carver

This character is a slave who is given the name of a dog. Her job is to stand silently unless her mistress wants her to do something.

Sylvie Bernardin de Maret Dacier Guilbert

This character reluctantly flees the French Revolution with a husband, goes to Saint-Domingo, and later becomes the mistress of a plantation in Louisiana.

Lucien Guilbert

This character is the son and heir to Le Petit. Since he is dissolute and irresponsible, his mother runs the plantation.

Claude Le Brun

This character is an artist and a portrait painter.

Byron Guilbert

This character is a cadet at West Point, and he expects to inherit his family’s planation after his grandmother and father die.

Rosalie Guilbert

This character is the mixed-blood daughter of a plantation owner who raped her mother. She is sent to boarding school at a convent.

Eugénie Duhon

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