A Day of Tears

Former wife of Pierce Butler, mother of Sarah and Frances Butler. She was an actress who encouraged Emma to run further North (to Canada)

• Fanny Kemble

• Rebecca

• Mattie

• Emma

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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A runaway slave who loved George; hid in a cave near the Butler plantation and was fed by Will and Mattie

• Emma

• Frances Butler

• Rebecca

• Mattie

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Pierce Butler's younger daughter who wanted to follow in her father's footsteps and restore the plantation

• Mattie

• Frances Butler

• Sarah Butler

• Emma

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Master Butler's manservant, husband of Mattie, father of Emma; saved Master Butler's life when he was little.

• George Weems

• George

• Pierce Butler

• Will

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Racist slave auctioneer who loses his voice after the rainy auction; later loses his leg in the Civil War also joined the KKK

• Will

• Pierce Butler

• George Weems

• George

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Owner of plantation, father of Sarah and Frances; had a gambling problem that led to bankruptcy

• Pierce Butler

• George Weems

• Will

• George

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Cook and house keeper, wife of Will, mother of Emma; her mother nursed Master Butler

• Emma

• Fanny Kemble

• Mattie

• Frances Butler

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Runaway slave who love Rebecca; hid in a cave near the Butler plantation and was fed by Will and Mattie

• George Weems

• Pierce Butler

• Will

• George

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Daughter of Mattie and Will; slave on Butler plantation in Georgia; took care of the Butler daughters and was unexpectedly sold.

• Emma

• Rebecca

• Sarah Butler

• Mattie

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Pierce Butler's oldest daughter who was more like her mother (against slavery). She named her daughter Emma after the slave who cared for her; she also could not forgive her father even on his deathbed

• Fanny Kemble

• Frances Butler

• Sarah Butler

• Rebecca

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.6