Anne Lockton
o :# She deliberately raises her offer for the girls to prevent Jenny from buying
them, beats Ruth for making noise, treats everyone around her, including her
husband, with cold, bitter selfishness, is vocal about her desire for Lady Seymour
to kick the bucket, sells Ruth, has I...
o :# She deliberately raises her offer for the girls to prevent Jenny from buying
them, beats Ruth for making noise, treats everyone around her, including her
husband, with cold, bitter selfishness, is vocal about her desire for Lady Seymour
to kick the bucket, sells Ruth, has Isabel branded
Mary Finch
o :# Freed Isabel and Ruth in her will. Taught Isabel to read, even though
teaching slaves to read was considered an "odd notion".
Thomas Hickey
o :# Member of Washington's life guards, hung for his part in the assassination
plot of George Washington.
Colonel Regan
o :# This man ends up violating his promise to Isabel that in exchange for her
intelligence data, he would "personally look into her case". At first, Regan
appears to respect Isabel as a source of valuable information about his enemy—he
even gives her the code word to the American camp. In the end, though, the rules
of society prevail over any desire he may have to help Isabel.
Colonel Bellingham
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o :# This man's take-no-prisoners attitude toward the British isn't the only thing
that makes him so interesting. He also seems to place quite a bit of trust in
Curzon, a strange attitude for someone who owns slaves. Curzon seems to rise
above his role as a slave and becomes an associate to the man—he accompanies
him to the docks to investigate the Locktons on their arrival and serves as a spy
for the Patriot cause. Still, at the very least, he is the catalyst that puts Isabel's
desire to win her freedom by spying into motion.
David Matthews
o :# The mayor of New York, affiliated with the Locktons. Associated with
attempted assassination of George Washington.
Elihu Lockton
o :# He's controlling, self-serving, power-hungry, and abusive. Spends most of the
book on the run after the plot against Washington blows up in his face.
Isabel
o :# Protagonist. She goes through a ton of stuff in this book that no thirteen-year-
old should ever have to experience. She loses her father to a slave auction, her
mother dies, Madam Lockton sells her sister, Ruth, and she endures physical and
emotional agony from her mistress, not to mention near death. In spite of this,
though, one thing is clear: She finds an inner strength through her struggles that
she never knew she had.
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