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Gbessa

This character is treated as an outcast by the character's village and is often referred to as a witch. This character later marries into polite society in Monrovia and helps lead an army against French soldiers who want to enslave free Blacks in Liberia.

Norman Aragon

This character is a mixed-race person who has the supernatural ability to become invisible and who helps African tribes fight those who would exploit and enslave them.

June Dey

This character is the child of a very strong man and a woman who is a ghost. This character appears to be indestructible, with skin that repels even bullets and blades.

Khati

This character, seeing that the character's child will be born on a day that makes the child cursed for life, attempts to hold the child's birth back but fails.

Safua

This character is a Poro person of great importance in the...

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