Characters from Missouri 1101

Claudia Mendoza
Prof. Young
English 1101
Character introduction

Characters from Missouri

The Reverend

• He is actually a recognizable character from Part I in the story 
• Reverend Martin who had once left John Brown's army and built one of his own. 
• He was threatened by Fred once when he was back in Brown's army, and he felt anxious for revenge since he was embarrassed. 
• When he and his army went down by the creek where Fred and Onion were, he found their horses about a quarter mile away from their location. 
• He only saw Fred by the creek after he told Onion to hide with The Good Lord Bird.
• He recognized Fred right away, and even though Fred didn't take out a gun at him or recognized him right away, he straight just shot at him, blasted him through the chest in cold blood.
• He said, "That'll teach you to draw on me, you apple-headed, horse-thieving, nigger-loving bastard" (McBride 113).
• While having an argument with his army for killing unarmed Fred, he ended off by shutting them down. Saying , "Brown won't tarry when he finds his boy dead out here. You wanna wait till he comes?" 
• He then set out to found John Brown. 
• While fighting, he and his army set fire to the houses of Free Staters, and shot them.
• He felt proud of killing both Fred and the Old Man, yelling it across all Osawatomie.

Sibonia

• She is Libby's sister. 
• She comes off as crazy, because she kept yelling over Onion after he was asking for Bob. 
• She is an "outside nigger" (slave) who lives in the slave pen in the back of the hotel. 
• She sets on a box wherever it goes. 
• She piles mud balls, but says that Onion is troubled, because he playing folks for a fool.
• She makes a deal with Onion, so she can get a bill of sale, or a pass since he know letters. 
• She is going to inform Onion on where Bob is. 
• She is the leader of the Insurrection. 

Pie

• She was a mulatto beauty who was all class.
• She was also a whore who belonged to Ms. Abby.
• She was the "mother Onion never knowed, the sister he never had, and his first love."
• Pie was going to get taught how to know letters from Onion. 
• While she set him up as a girl and get him a minor job from Ms. Abby. 
• She also had money saved up in secret. 
• She showed Henry how to look and act as a girl.

Ms. Abby

• She is the owner of the "high-class" Pikesville Hotel. 
• She was angly ass white woman according to Onion.
• She ran a lot of businesses, like Dutch Henry. 
• She was also a good slaveholder. 
• She loaned Bob out.

Darg

• He is a character that is feared throughout Ms. Abby's hotel.
• A big ass colored man, he tall and ugly too. 
• He was the boss of the slave yard.