Main characters
1. Anyanwu-a healer, shape-shifter
2. Doro-a spirit-man, god
3. Issac-a son of Doro who has supernatural speed and strength
Supporting characters
1. Thomas - a poor farmer
2. White slaver
3. Bernard Daly - a slaver
4. John Woodley - Doro’s ungifted son
5. Okoye - Anyanwu’s grandson
6. Udenkwo - a woman slave who becomes Okoye’s wife
7. Sarah Cutler - a former lover of Doro now married to Blake Cutler
8. Pelham - a farmer
9. Ruth a.k.a Nweke - a daughter of Anyanwu and Doro
10. Stephen - the young boy with deformity; Anyanwu’s son
11. Mgbada - Anyanwu’s favorite husband
12. Luisa - a white woman who lived on Anyanwu’s plantation
13. Helen - Anyanwu’s youngest daughter
14. Margaret Nneka - Anyanwu’s daughter who married Joseph who committed suicide
15. Kane - a quadroon, Leah’s husband
16. Julien - Anyanwu’s son
17. Iye - Stephen’s wife
18. Leah - Anyanwu’s white daughter
19. Lale Sachs - Doro’s problematic son, a telepath
20. Blake Cutler - Sarah Cutler’s husband
21. Peter a.k.a Chukwuka - Anyanwu’s son
22. The Sloanes - Anyanwu’s neighbor
23. Anneke Strycker Croon - a telepath who read minds for six generations but couldn’t bare children
24. Edward Warrick - Anyanwu’s disguise as a white man
25. Denise - Anyanwu’s wife when she was in male form
26. Helen Matthews - a white woman friend
27. Rita - a rouge cook who is black and Indian
28. Joseph Toler - a descendent of Anyanwu whom Doro brought to the plantation
29. Frank Winston - Doro’s white son
30. Susan - Doro’s latest baby momma
31. The man at the village who Doro killed
32. The young boy at the village who Doro killed
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Briana Whiteside is a graduate student in English at SIUE and a contributing writer for the Cultural Front.
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