# Dark Princess — Character guide

> Key figures in Dark Princess by W. E. B. Du Bois.

- [Matthew Towns](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dark_princess_se/characters/matthew_towns.md): Matthew Towns walks out of the University of Manhattan with his honors flung in a dean's face, his medical career destroyed by the color line, and boards a ship toward Berlin. He is proud, quick to fury, and hungry for a
- [Sammy Scott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dark_princess_se/characters/sammy_scott.md): Sammy Scott built his power by selling protection to gamblers and brothel-keepers, then using the cash to bribe officials and organize Negro voters. He is genial, patient, and utterly unsentimental about the machinery he
- [Sara Andrews](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dark_princess_se/characters/sara_andrews.md): Sara Andrews fought her way out of Indiana, refused every man who tried to 'fool' her, and became secretary to the Honorable Sammy Scott. She is thin, tailored, and disconcerting—men look, but do not flirt twice. Her pro
- [Kautilya](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dark_princess_se/characters/kautilya.md): Kautilya moves between silk robes, Beethoven, and the secret politics of a global darker world, her eyes holding both surrender and command. She sees in Matthew's Virginia mother a goddess and in Matthew himself a partne
- [Mr. Perigua](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dark_princess_se/characters/perigua.md): Perigua stands at the edge of Matthew's world as the voice that refuses patience, compromise, and the slow grind of politics. Where Sammy Scott works the machine and Kautilya works the spirit, Perigua works the fuse. His
- [Jimmie Giles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dark_princess_se/characters/jimmie_giles.md): Jimmie Giles belongs to the shadow network around Sammy Scott, the kind of man who carries messages, remembers faces, and survives by being useful. He is loyal to Matthew in the way of men who have learned not to ask too
- [Corruthers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dark_princess_se/characters/corruthers.md): A Chicago political boss whose machine trades in favors and silence, Corruthers treats Black votes as currency and rivals as obstacles to be broken.
- [Doolittle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dark_princess_se/characters/doolittle.md): An editor whose newspaper ink doubles as political leverage, Doolittle weighs principle against the price of access in Chicago's contested Black wards.
- [The Japanese](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dark_princess_se/characters/the_japanese.md): A Japanese diplomat or observer encountered during the international plot.
- [Captain the Honorable Malcolm Fortescue-Dodd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dark_princess_se/characters/malcolm_fortescue_dodd.md): A British officer and diplomat encountered in India.
- [Maharanee of Bwodpur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dark_princess_se/characters/maharanee_of_bwodpur.md): The ruler of Bwodpur, a key figure in the Indian setting.

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