Birdie | Basil | The Jailer's manservant. |
Jacob | Bell | Delphina's husband. Pheby's boss. Aka: Master Jacob. |
Monroe | Brown | Pheby and Essex's son. |
Pheby Delores | Brown | Narrator and Protagonist. Aka: Ninny. |
Ruth | Brown | Pheby's mother. |
Vinnie | Brown | Pheby's grandmother. A Queen. |
William | Cawfield | The tutor of Corinna's children. |
Nathaniel | Colver | The reverend. |
Anne | Davis | Hector's wife. |
Hector | Davis | A jail owner. |
Miss | Grace | A teacher. |
Essex | Henry | Pheby's lover. Monroe's father. |
Corinna | Hinton | The mistress of the jail off Brich Alley. |
Aunt | Hope | The plantation cook. |
Hester Francine | Lapier | Rubin and Pheby's 1st daughter. |
Isabel | Lapier | Pheby's daughter. |
Joan | Lapier | Pheby's daughter. |
Katherine | Lapier | Pheby and Rubin's 4th daughter. |
Rubin | Lapier | The man who rescued Pheby from auction. A human trafficker. Aka: Marse, The Jailer. |
Rubin | Lapier Jr. | Rubin and Pheby's son. |
Grace | Marshall | The Lapier's tutor. |
Henry | O'Keefe | Rubin's friend. |
Polly | O'Keefe | Henry's wife. |
Silas | Omuhundro | Corrina's husband. A Jail owner. |
David | Pullham | A jail owner. |
Helen | Pullham | David's wife. |
Robert | Ryland | The first African baptist church pastor. |
Miss | Sally | Jacob's sister. |
Miss | Sarah | Charlott's boss. |
Mr. | Snitch | The plantation overseer. |
Johnnie | White | The preacher. |
Doctor | Wilks | Delphina's doctor. |
Abbie | | Rubin's house girl. |
Agnes | | One of the prisoners. |
Alice | | The slave woman that Pheby met. |
Arthur | | A skilled blacksmith and carpenter. |
Beth-Anne | | One of the slaves. |
Betty | | The O'keefe's maid. |
Brenda | | One of the slaves. |
Charlott | | One of the slaves. |
Clarence | | Rubin's right hand man. |
Cudjoe | | Nancy's twin brother. |
Daniel | | Sissy's son. |
Delphina | | Jacob's wife. |
Elsie | | Pheby's co-servant. |
Florence | | The new slave. |
Ginny | | One of the slaves. |
Hally | | One of the slaves. |
Hamp | | Rubin's new driver. |
Hilda | | A German seamstress. |
Jack | | One of Pheby's tormentors. |
Janice | | Pheby's helper. |
Jasper | | Aunt Hope's son. |
July | | One of Rubin's servants. |
Lovie | | The keeper of the house. |
Matilda | | The bloody woman that Pheby met. |
Miss | | One of the slaves. |
Nancy | | One of the slaves. |
Parrott | | One of Jacob's servants. |
Rachel | | Delphina's long-time servant. Deceased. |
Reade | | The plantation driver. |
Sam | | Matilda's husband. |
Sissy | | Rubin's entertainer. |
Susan | | The slave with a broken toe. |
Taffy | | One of the slaves. |
Thunder | | One of Master Jacob's horses. |
Tommy | | One of Rubin's servants. |