women, she has lost her children tothe slave-trader. - SIMON LEGREE- Simon Legree is the owner of a plantation on the Red River in Louisiana. Sadistic and cruel, he breaks his slaves in body and soul and works them to death. Legree has noreal human ties. He has sexual relations with slave women whom he buys for that purpose, and his maincompanions are the barbaric Sambo and Quimbo. Legree is interested in growing as much cotton as he can,as his bet with several other plantation owners indicates, but he also seems to enjoy abusing his slaves,particularly Uncle Tom. CASSY- Cassy, the daughter of a wealthy white man and a slave woman, is sheltered andconvent-educated. The death of her father results in her sale to a man who becomes her lover, and whomshe adores. But after some years, he sells her and her children to pay a gambling debt. Cassy is drivenhalf-mad by the loss of her son and daughter, and searches in vain for them. She is owned by a series ofmasters. By one of them she has a son, whom she kills with an overdose of opium rather than face the painof losing another child to slavery. SUSAN, EMMELINE, AND LUCY- Susan, Emmeline, and Lucy are sold in the New Orleansslave market with Uncle Tom and the rest of the St. Clare family slaves. Susan and Emmeline, a religiousmother and daughter, are heartbroken when they are separated and sold. Legree buys Emmeline to be hismistress, but she resists him. Emmeline marries a crew member on the ship that carries the Harris family,Madame de Thoux, and Cassy to France. Lucy is purchased by Legree as a mistress for hissecond-in-command, Sambo, although she had a husband and children in New Orleans. Lucy finds itdifficult to work in the fields, and Tom helps her by secretly putting cotton into her bag so that she will beable ...
