# Georgiana Carlton — Clotel character guide

> Georgiana Carlton in Clotel by William Wells Brown.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Georgiana, Carlton, Georgy, Miss Georgy

**First appearance:** 0007-iv-the-quadroon-s-home

## Snapshot

A Southern belle who overhears a servant's gossip, seizes her own proposal, and turns her marriage into a quiet engine of emancipation on the plantation.

## Who they are

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 overseer's regime, dismiss the preacher who tells slaves to be content, and debate whether freedom means Liberia, the Free States, or Canada. Her insistence that this land is as much the negro's as her own makes her the novel's clearest white ally and a counterweight to every hypocritical master around her.

## Relationships

### [Mr. Peck](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/mr_peck)

_professional_

Georgiana is likely a student or dependent under Mr. Peck's authority, with frequent interactions suggesting a teacher-student or guardian dynamic.

### [Clotel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/clotel)

_friendship_

Clotel and Georgiana share a bond of sympathy and mutual support, with Georgiana often showing kindness to Clotel despite their different social positions.

### [Jones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/jones)

_professional_

Jones is likely a servant or overseer in the Carlton household, interacting with Georgiana in a subordinate role.

### [Mr. Carlton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/mr_carlton)

_family_

Mr. Carlton is Georgiana's father, and their relationship involves paternal authority and affection.

### [Snyder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/snyder)

_professional_

Snyder is likely a servant or employee in the Carlton household, interacting with Georgiana in a service capacity.

### [Sam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/sam)

_professional_

Sam is likely a slave or servant in the Carlton household, with Georgiana as his mistress.

### [Sam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/sam)

_professional_

Sam is likely a slave or servant in the Carlton household, with Georgiana as his mistress.

### [Mr. Peck](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/mr_peck)

_professional_

Georgiana is likely a student or dependent under Mr. Peck's authority, with frequent interactions suggesting a teacher-student or guardian dynamic.

### [Jones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/jones)

_professional_

Jones is likely a servant or overseer in the Carlton household, interacting with Georgiana in a subordinate role.

### [Mr. Peck](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/mr_peck)

_professional_

Georgiana is likely a student or dependent under Mr. Peck's authority, with frequent interactions suggesting a teacher-student or guardian dynamic.

### [Clotel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/clotel)

_friendship_

Clotel and Georgiana share a bond of sympathy and mutual support, with Georgiana often showing kindness to Clotel despite their different social positions.

### [Mr. Carlton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/characters/mr_carlton)

_family_

Mr. Carlton is Georgiana's father, and their relationship involves paternal authority and affection.

## In the story

### [The Religious Teacher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/chapters/vi-the-religious-teacher)

Mr. Peck's daughter who argues for abolition and Christian love for all.

### [X: The Young Christian](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/chapters/x-the-young-christian)

The young Christian who argues against slavery using Scripture, converts Carlton, and challenges her father's pro-slavery views.

### [XI: The Parson Poet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/chapters/xi-the-parson-poet)

Mr. Peck's daughter, who sympathizes with abolitionist sentiments and encourages Carlton to observe the slaves' condition.

### [A Slave Hunting Parson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/chapters/xiii-a-slave-hunting-parson)

Sympathizes with Carlton's anti-slavery views and tearfully recounts her father's killing of the slave Harry.

### [Death of the Parson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/chapters/xvi-death-of-the-parson)

Grieves her father's death but recognizes the enslaved people's lack of grief as a sign of slavery's wrongs; defends their impromptu song as a lesson.

### [XVIII: The Liberator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/chapters/xviii-the-liberator)

Now sole heir to her father's estate, she marries Carlton and works with him to implement gradual emancipation and better treatment of the slaves.

### [XXI: The Christian’s Death](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clotel_se/chapters/xxi-the-christian-s-death)

Emancipates her slaves and dies of consumption; her Christian philosophy drives her actions.

## Links

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