# Clotel — Character guide

> Key figures in Clotel by William Wells Brown.

- [William Wells Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/william_wells_brown.md): William is a tall, full-bodied mechanic whose countenance beams with intelligence, a man who has earned more than his purchase price and saved one hundred and fifty dollars toward his own liberty. Moved to tears by Clote
- [Clotel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/clotel.md): Clotel is a fair-skinned enslaved woman whose beauty and near-white complexion let her pass as a free lady, a fact she turns into a weapon when she disguises herself as the invalid Mr. Johnson and books passage north. He
- [Georgiana Carlton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/georgiana_carlton.md): Georgiana is a planter's daughter who has read about woman's rights but cannot nerve herself to speak to Carlton until Sam's idle remark about love shames her into action. Once married, she and her husband scrap the over
- [Horatio Green](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/horatio_green.md): Horatio Green is the man whose uneasy slumbers murmur Clotel's name, whose lips quiver and face turns deadly pale when he sees her and their child on the street. He chose ambition over the woman he truly loved, and now e
- [Sam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/sam.md): Sam is the servant who lingers in Carlton's room with the boots in his hands, wishing aloud that Marser Carlton and Miss Georgy would marry so the household might have good times. His casual remark about love haunts Geor
- [Mr. Peck](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/mr_peck.md): Mr. Peck is the slaveholding parson whose sermons Snyder-style comfort the enslaved into accepting their lot, making them better satisfied and more valuable as property without preparing them for the world to come. He em
- [Mr. Carlton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/mr_carlton.md): A wealthy slaveholder whose buried past with Clotel resurfaces when his young wife glimpses the child he cannot acknowledge.
- [Currer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/currer.md): Clotel's mother, a woman whose love for her daughter survives every sale, separation, and cruelty that slavery can devise.
- [Mr. Green](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/mr_green.md): A slaveholder's son whose whiteness and conscience collide when he joins an uprising and faces the price of freedom.
- [Henry Morton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/henry_morton.md): A young Vermont doctor newly arrived in New Orleans who marries Althesa and dares to love across the color line.
- [Althesa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/althesa.md): Clotel's sister, sold into bondage yet determined to build a life of dignity with the doctor who loves her.
- [Mr. Devenant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/mr_devenant.md): A French planter whose cruelty toward Althesa exposes how slavery corrupts even those who claim to love.
- [Ned Huckelby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/ned_huckelby.md): Slave overseer known for cruelty.
- [Aunt Polly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/aunt_polly.md): Elderly slave woman who cares for children.
- [Pompey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/pompey.md): Slave who assists in the slave market.
- [Johnson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/johnson.md): Slave trader who buys and sells Clotel.
- [Mr. Walker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/mr_walker.md): Slave catcher who pursues runaways.
- [Gertrude](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/gertrude.md): Slave woman who suffers under cruel masters.
- [Jones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/jones.md): Neighbor and fellow slaveholder who interacts with Mr. Peck.
- [The Judge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/the_judge.md): Presiding judge in court cases involving slaves.
- [Mr. Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/mr_smith.md): Northern man who helps slaves escape via the Underground Railroad.
- [Snyder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/snyder.md): Cruel slaveholder who tortures his slaves.
- [Captain Price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/captain_price.md): Slave ship captain who transports slaves.
- [Mrs. French](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/mrs_french.md): Woman who helps slaves escape via the Underground Railroad.

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