The family’s only hope is to attempt to marry him off to Corrine Quinn, a member of the Quality (the masters).Īt 19, Hiram realizes that he will be sold off like so many of the Lockless slaves if Maynard inherits. Maynard, on the other hand, grows up to be a crude, promiscuous gambler whom none of the local gentry respect. From 12 to 19, Hiram learns that he is superior to his brother in intelligence and character but that his fate is to be a servant to Maynard. Hiram is a strikingly intelligent boy, so much so that Howell trained him to become the manservant of Maynard. When Hiram was a little boy, Howell sold Rose, Hiram’s mother, leaving the boy to be raised by Thena, an enslaved woman who lost her own family. In flashback, Coates reveals Hiram’s early life. The blue door is a manifestation of Conduction, a supernatural power that allows its wielder to fold space and time to transport people. His master’s son, Maynard Walker, is killed in the crash, but Hiram survives when a blue door transports him from the water to a family monument on the outskirts of the Howell plantation, Lockless. In Part 1, Hiram, the Tasked (slave) and son of Howell Walker, miraculously survives driving his master’s coach into the Goose River.
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