Mixed Race Studies

GEORGE PEYTON (Mrs. Peyton’s
Nephew, educated in Europe, and just returned home)

 JACOB M’CLOSKY
(formerly Overseer of Terrebonne, but now Owner of one half of the
Estate)

 SALEM SCUDDER
(a Yankee from Massachusetts, now Overseer of Terrebonne, great on
improvements and inventions, once a Photographic Operator, and been
a little of everything generally)

 PETE (an “Ole Uncle,” once the late Judge’s
body servant, but now “too ole to work, sa”)

 SUNNYSIDE (a Planter, Neighbour, and Old Friend of the
Peytons)

 LAFOUCHE
(a Rich Planter)

 PAUL
(a Yellow Boy, a favourite of the late Judge’s, and so allowed to do much as he
likes)

 RATTS
(Captain of the Magnolia Steamer)

 COLONEL POINDEXTER
(an Auctioneer and Slave Salesman)

 JULES THIBODEAUX
(a Young Creole Planter)

 CAILLOU
(an Overseer)

 JACKSON
(a Planter)

 CLAIBORNE
(the Auctioneer’s Clerk)

 SOLON
(a Slave)

 WAH-NO-TEE
(an Indian Chief of the Lepan Tribe)

 MRS. PEYTON
(of Terrebonne Plantation, in the Attakapas, Widow of the late Judge Peyton)

 ZOE
(an Octoroon Girl, free, the Natural Child of the late Judge by a Quadroon
Slave)

 DORA SUNNYSIDE
(only Daughter and Heiress to Sunnyside, a Southern Belle)

 GRACE
(a Yellow Girl, a Slave)

 DIDO
(the Cook, a Slave)

 MRS. CLAIBORNE 

 MINNIE
(a Quadroon Slave)