![]() ![]() Half-sister of Effia, raised by Maame and Big Man in Asanteland. Abeeku is seen as a competent leader of the village and makes an alliance with another village and the white men to trade slaves. He and Effia do not marry because Baaba convinces Cobbe to break off the promise and marry Effia to James. He becomes chief of their village and takes on multiple wives. AbeekuĪ young man from Effia's village who she is originally promised to marry. He is generally kind and gentle with Effia, but he gets angry and cold when she brings up the slaves held in the Castle's dungeon. They get married and have a child together, though he has a wife and children back in England. James CollinsĪ white man who falls in love with Effia. She and Effia become friends while living at the Castle. The first woman from Effia's village to be married to a white man. He is kind to Effia and is the one who reveals that Baaba is not her birth mother. ![]() ![]() She beats Effia throughout her childhood and makes Effia conceal her menstruation so that she can marry her to a white man and get a large bride price. The woman who raises Effia, though she is not the girl's birth mother. He wants Effia to marry a man from their village rather than a white man, but allows her to marry James Collins at his wife Baaba's insistence. Effia marries a white man named James and moves to the Castle. Effia is born in Fanteland and raised by her father, and a step-mother who beats her. The first main character introduced in the novel. ![]()
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