Twelve Years a Slave · Character
Charles Hughes
A slaveholder who hires Solomon.
minor
First appearance: xi
Charles Hughes shows up with force in Legal Proceedings and Affidavits. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Justice of the Peace who administers oaths for several affidavits.
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- Extended family and peripheral figures
- Solomon's captors and betrayers
- Plantation slaves and overseers
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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