Characters
Charles Gaston - A man who dreams of making it to the Governor's Mansion
Sallie Worth - A daughter of the old-fashioned South
Gen. Daniel Worth - Sallie Worth's father
Mrs. Worth - Sallie's mother
The Rev. John Durham - A preacher who threw his life away
Tom Camp - A Confederate soldier
Flora - Tom's daughter
Simon Legree - Ex-slave driver and Reconstruction leader
Allan Mcleod - A scalawag (Union sympathizer)
Everett Lowell - Member of Congress from Boston
Helen Lowell - Everett's daughter
Major Stuart Dameron - Head of the Ku Klux Klan
Hose Norman - poor white man
Hon. Tim Shelby - Political Boss
George Harris, Jr - An educated Negro
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