PR | William |
Leidesdorff | Son of a Jewish-Danish sailor and a black island woman. |
| Hortense |
| William's Leidesdorff fiancee. |
| Joseph |
Folsom | A real estate investor. |
| Anna Marie |
Sparks | Leidesdorff's estranged mother. |
1 | William C. |
Coffin | A local abolitionist. |
| Frederick |
Douglass | Had escaped from slavery in Maryland. |
| William Lloyd |
Garrison | A well-known abolitionist. |
| Edward J. |
Pompey | A free black whaler, industrialist, and ship commander. |
| Absalom |
Boston | A wealthy black whaling captain. |
| Mary Ellen |
Pleasant | Became one of America's most powerful black entrepreneurs. |
| Louis |
Williams | Mary Ellen's father. |
| Mary |
Hussey | An elderly Quaker woman. |
| Prince |
Boston | Absalom's uncle. |
| James |
Smith | Pleasant's husband. |
| | Trainor |
A priest. |
| Wendell |
Phillips | James Smith's old friend. |
| Geo |
Green | Wendell's friend. |
| Louis |
Harden | Smith's friend. |
| John James |
Pleasant | Managed Smith's land. aka: JJ. |
| Edward J. |
Gardner | A captain who helped Pleasant manage her husband's estate. |
| James K. |
Polk | A president who set out the men for San Francisco. |
2 | Emmeline |
| First enslaved person to undergo the ritual in the state. |
| George W. |
Freeman | A bishop who presided Emmeline's ceremony. |
| Robert Reed |
Church Sr. | Emmeline's older son. aka: Bob. |
| James |
Wilson | Emmeline's younger son. |
| Lucy |
| Emmeline's mother. |
| Philip |
Burton | Doctor owned the plantation where Emmeline's
mother living. |
| Rosalie V. |
Burton | Dr. Burton's youngest daughter. |
| Charles B. |
Church Sr. | Robert Reed's father. |
| Mary |
Church l | Capt. Charles Sr.'s wife. |
| Molly |
Church | Deaf-mute child of Charles Sr. |
| Charles |
Church Jr. | Mary Church's son. |
| Robert |
Fulton | A developer of a successful steamboat. |
| Kinder |
Blair | A pastry chef. |
3 | Fred |
Longford | The one who received money from Pleasant. |
| William |
West | Owner of West and Harper. |
| Thomas |
Randolph | A wealthy enclaved in the city. |
| James |
McCune Smith | First African-American medical doctor. |
| Samuel R. |
Ward | An abolitionist. |
| Jeremiah |
Hamilton | Richest blackman in New York. |
| Thomas M. |
Decatur Ward | Pleasant's nephew. |
| John |
Brown | Most belligerent opponent of slavery. |
| William |
Wells Brown | Pleasant's friend. |
| Franklin |
Pierce | An anti-abolitionist democrat. |
| Stephen A. |
Douglas | An Illinois's senator. |
| Abraham |
Lincoln | A President who set off a chain of events that lead to civil war. |
| William |
Alvord | Man gave Pleasant two steamship tickets for New York. |
| Martin |
Delany | A doctor. |
| John Henry |
Kagi | Elected as secretary of war. |
| William |
Howard Day | An abolitionist publisher. |
| Mary Ann |
Shaded Cary | Another abolitionist publisher. |
| Lewis |
Washington | George Washington's great-grand nephew. |
4 | Blanche K. |
Bruce | A porter. Robert Church's old friend. |
| Margaret |
Pico | Had a slave marriage with Robert Reed Church. |
| Laura |
Church | Margaret and Robert Church's daughter. |
5 | Eliza Jane |
Hamilton | Jeremiah's wife. |
6 | Robert |
Lee | A confederate soldier. |
| Standhope |
Uwatie | Commander of the confederate Indian cavalry. |
| Andrew |
Jackson | Passed act: persons born in the United States being citizens. |
7 | Louisa |
Ayers | Former slave of a prominent white Memphis family.
Aka: Lou. |
| Mary |
Church ll | Lou and Robert Reed's daughter. |
| Nathan B. |
Forrest | A confederate luminaries. |
| Jefferson |
Davis | Ex-confederate president. |
| David |
Roach | An Irish police officer. |
| Elihu |
Washburne | A bipartisan congressman. |
| Thomas |
Church | Lou and Robert Reed's son. |
| Rutherford |
Hayes | Elected as president of Memphis. |
| Kate |
Bionda | Operated a docks restaurant. |
8 | Selim |
Woodworth | A wealthy industrialist. |
| Lisette |
Woodworth | Selim's young wife. |
| Lizzie |
| Pleasant's daughter. |
| R.B. |
Phillips | Lizzie's husband. |
| George W. |
Tyler | Pleasant's lawyer. |
| Henry Huntley |
Haight | Elected as governor. |
| Newton |
Booth | Former California governor. |
| Thomas |
Bell Sr. | A director of two railroad companies. |
| Teresa |
Clingan | Thomas Bell's wife. |
9 | Anna |
Wright Church | An educator. Became Robert Reed's wife. |
| P.B.S. |
Pinchback | Former governor of Louisiana. |
| Ida B. |
Wells | A young journalist. |
| Taylor |
Nightingale | Ida's publisher. |
| Annette |
Church | Anna Church's daughter. |
| Robert Reed |
Church Jr. | Robert Reed Sr.'s son. |
| Thomas |
Moss | A grocery owner. |
| Will |
Stewart | Arrested and shot on the right side of his neck. |
| Calvin |
McDowell | Arrested and killed with multiple gunshot on his face. |
10 | Ottowa W. |
Gurley | A teacher. John Gurley's son. |
| John |
Gurley | A slave. |
| Rosanna |
| Ottowa's mother. |
| Edward P. |
McCabe | An African-American businessman from Troy, New York. |
| Emma |
| John Gurley's wife. |
| William |
Murray | A lawyer who is known for "Alfalfa Bill". |
11 | Annie Minerva |
Turnbo | Invented the Wonderful Hair Grower. |
| Sarah |
Turnbo | Annie's older sister. |
| Lilly |
| Sarah Turnbo's friend. |
| Bea |
| Lilly's friend. |
| Robert |
Turnbo | Annie's father. |
| Isabel |
| Annie's mother. |
| Laura |
Turnbo | Annie's adult sister. |
| Alonzo |
Herndon | Former slave who opened the most famous barbershop for whitemen. |
| Alice |
| A teenage girl who asked Annie to make her hair beautiful. |
| Sarah |
Breedlove | One of Annie's best saleswomen in the city. aka: Madam Walker. |
| A'Lelia |
Breedlove | Sarah Breedlove's daughter. |
| Theodore |
Roosevelt | Succeeded the presidency upon the assasination of William McKinley. |
| Charles |
James | Sarah Breedlove's husband. |
12 | Hattie |
Elias | Charles Elias's eldest daughter. |
| Charles |
Elias | A caterer. |
| Mary |
Elias | Charles Elias's wife. |
| Hannah |
Bessie | Charles Elias's youngest daughter. |
| John |
Platt | Owner of a glass manufacturing company in New York. |
| Julius |
Miller | A resort owner. aka: Pop. |
| Franklin |
Sattterfield | A negro who was courting Hannah Bessie. |
| David |
Elias | Twin brother of Hannah. |
| Clara |
| Hannah's daughter. |
| Christopher |
Smith | Hannah's husband. |
| Cornelius |
Williams | One of Hannah's tenants. |
| August C. |
Nanz | Hannah's lawyer. |
| Kato |
| Hannah's most trusted servant. |
| Edward |
Robinson | A beauty doctor. |
13 | John |
Drummond | A famous California wine maker. |
| Thomas F. |
Bell Jr. | Thomas Bell Sr.'s son. |
14 | William |
McKinley | Nominated as president by Church Sr. |
| Booker T. |
Washington | Most famous black person in America. |
| Robert H. |
Teller | First black judge in Washington. Reed's Sr. son-in-law. |
15 | W.E.B. |
Dubois | A scholar and an activist. |
| Will |
Rogers | Recruit people to work in oil and refinaries. |
| John |
Stradford | A black businessman. |
| A.J. |
Smitherman | A columnist and a publisher. |
16 | Aaron |
Malone | A travelling Bible salesman. |
| George |
Knox | Publisher of the largest black magazine in Indiana. |
| Andrew |
Carnegie | Member of the National Negro Business League. |
| Dora |
Larrie | Madam Walker's agent. |
| Anthony |
Overton | Founder and owner of the Overton Manufacturing Company. |
| E.M. |
Griggs | Head of Farmers and Citizens Savings Bank in Palestine. |
| W.W. |
Hadnott | A banker. |
| Freeman B. |
Ransom | Madam's business manager. |
17 | Benjamin |
Tillman | A senator of South Carolina. |
| Gwendolyn |
Elias | Hannah's daughter. |
| Andrew |
Green | New York's city planner. |
| George W. |
McClushy | An inspector. |
| W.J. |
Cassard | John Platt's son-in-law. |
| Isaac |
Platts | John Platt's younger brother. |
| Patrick W. |
Dugan | Hannah's doorman. |
| Washington |
Brauns | An attorney hired by Hannah Elias. |
| William |
Rand | Assistant District attorney. |
18 | John |
Nail | New York's top real estate developer. |
| James Carrol |
Napier | Booker's successor - president of Ntl Negro Business League. |
| R.R. |
Moton | An administrator of the Tuskegee Institute. |
| George W. |
Breckenridge | A white newspaper publisher. |
19 | Williard |
McCullough | A sheriff. |
| Dick |
Rowland | A high school dropout who worked as a shine boy. |
| Sarah |
Page | An elevator operator. |
| Anderson |
| Accused Gurley as a liar. |
| | Spears |
An older lawyer. |
20 | Philip A. |
Payton Jr. | An African-American real estate developer. |
| John G. |
Tyler | Another real estate developer. |
| James W. |
Johnson | John Nail's brother-in-law. |
| Hutchen C. |
Bishops | A priest. |
EP | Sara Roberta |
Church | Administrator for federal government. Church's Jr. daughter. |
| Robert |
Smith | One of America's most successful investors. |
| John Mott |
Drew | A black investor. |