Character Role: Patroller

You are a poor white farmer with barely enough money to keep your family fed and clothed. You live in Maryland or Virginia near the plantations. Your job is to check the papers of blacks you see on the road and to help recover runaway slaves. You are not a professional and can barely read and write. The money you make for recovering a slave helps to keep your family alive. You believe slavery is necessary and reinforces the order of nature. It is against the law for slaves to run away and you do your best to uphold the law.