Priss is a woman who was once a slave on Cotton Farm and now lives with her family in the overseer's cabin. Priss is thought to be an unintelligent person, but Cynara believes her to be quite intelligent. In fact, Cynara believes that Priss caused the near death and the death of Mealy Mouth during each of her episodes of childbirth in revenge for the beating death of her younger brother at the hands of the Wilkeses.
