Character+List

=Roxana=

Roxana also known as Roxy is a slave under Percy Driscoll in the south. Roxana is one-sixteenth black. She has a son named Chambers and comes up with a scheme to give her son a good life. She decides on this plan because she is very scared that her son could be sold down river and she knows that if he grows up white he will get all the benefits. She switches her son with the little boy of Percy Driscoll. When Percy dies Judge Driscoll frees Roxy, she stays around and is very poor. She reveals to her son that is known as "Tom" that she is his Mom. She then sends herself into slavery for him to help him pay off his bets. Roxy is a very intelligent woman and is tough and brave. She is brave and intelligent for this plan to switch the kids it takes a lot to switch kids especially her owners kid. It is a brillant idea to know that the parents can't tell the difference between kids.

=Valet de Chambre (Chambers"Tom")=

He is the son of Roxy. When he was a baby he was switched by his mother with the white baby and grew up in the Household of Percy Driscoll. He is known as "Tom" his whole life. "Tom" grows up spoiled and in return he is terrible to everyone. He goes to Yale for college. He gets into a gambling addiction and starts to steal also and is huge debt. When Percy dies he starts to live with Judge Driscoll. Gets disowned by Judge for a short time because one of the Italian twins challenges him to a duel and "Tom" backsdown, the Judge is upset because "Tom" was being a coward. Judge Driscoll soon rewrites his will because "Tom" was doing everything the Judge wanted and liked. "Tom" ends up killing Judge Driscoll. "Tom" gets arrested thanks to Pudd'nhead Wilson using fingerprints to prove he was the murderer.

Judge Driscoll
Judge Driscoll is one of the local judge's in Dawson's Landing. He is a well thought of citizen in the town and is well respected with high power. He and his wife adopt Tom when his brother Percy Driscoll dies. He also helps free Roxy at the same time. He doesn't own any slaves because he doesn't believe in it and he is in the Free Thinkers society. Judge Driscoll is a very wealthy man in the town and likes to help out in most ways that he can. Helps pay off debts of Tom. He disowns Tom for a period of time because he is embarrashed when Tom backs down to the Italian twin in a duel. Eventually puts Tom back into the will because Tom gets back on his good side. He beats one of the Italian Twins in an election and then turns the twin down when he is challenged to a duel.Tom eventually kills Judge Driscoll because he woke up when Tom was robbing him.

Tom("Chambers")
Tom is the son of Percy Driscoll who is Roxy's master. Roxy has a baby at the same time that Tom is born and they look very much alike. Roxy takes care of both of the babies from birth and switches them to give her baby a better life and to make sure he won't be sold down the river as a slave. Tom Driscoll then becomes "Chambers", Roxy's fake son. When Percy dies Judge Driscoll buys him to prevent "Tom" from selling him down the river. Tom grows up to be a kind, well mannered boy. Tom protects Chambers growing up.

David "Pudd'nhead" Wilson
David, otherwise known as Pudd'nhead Wilson is an aspiring lawyer who moves to Dawson's Landing. Although he is actually very smart he gets the nickname "Pudd'nhead" because he makes the joke "I'd like to own half of that dog." about a annoying barking dog at the beginning of the book, implying that he wanted to kill it but nobody understood the joke so they thought he was stupid. Since he is now the town idiot he doesnt get to practice law. He has an obsession with fingerprints and he fingerprinted Tom and Chambers before the switch. When the italian twins, Luigi and Angelo go on trial for the murder of Judge Driscoll, Pudd'nhead's close friend, he is able to prove that they are innocent and Chambers is guilty using the fingerprints on the crime scene. He also exposes the fact that Chambers is actually black.

The Italian Twins(Luigi and Angelo)
Luigi and Angelo Capello grew up in a rich family but their parents lost everything when they were on the losing side of a war. When their parents died they were sold into slavery in order to pay off their parents debts. The twins eventually move to Dawson's Landing where the again become rich and famous. Luigi gets into trouble when he retaliates to "Tom's" antics and fights him. He also challenges Judge Driscoll to a duel and is later accused of being an assasin so when Judge Driscoll mysteriously dies they are the prime suspects. Defended by Pudd'nhead Wilson in court, Pudd'nhead proves their innocents by using fingerprints to prove that the murderer was actually "Tom."