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Cathleen Calvert
Hilton is the Calverts’ Yankee overseer. He behaves like an equal with the Calverts after his Yankee accent helps save their house from being burned by the Yankees during the war. Along with Tara’s old overseer Jonas Wilkerson, Hilton is head of the Freedman’s Bureau, and tells Black people that they have the right to vote and marry white women. He conspires with Suellen to get Gerald to sign the oath of Yankee cooperation to receive government money, and he later marries Cathleen Calvert.
Hilton Quotes in Gone with the Wind
The Gone with the Wind quotes below are all either spoken by Hilton or refer to Hilton . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 49 Quotes
The hate that enveloped the Bullock regime enveloped her too […] Scarlett had cast her lot with the enemy and, whatever her birth and family connections, she was now in the category of a turncoat, a nigger lover, a traitor, a Republican—and a Scallawag.
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Hilton Character Timeline in Gone with the Wind
The timeline below shows where the character Hilton appears in Gone with the Wind. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 29
...is home, but he’s dying. Cade and Cathleen live with Mrs. Calvert and their overseer, Hilton, who’s been acting like an equal ever since his Yankee accent helped save the house...
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...Cathleen says she’s getting married but no one at Tara is invited. She is marrying Hilton, the Calverts’ Yankee overseer. Cade is dying and Mrs. Calvert is moving north. As Cathleen...
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Chapter 31
...of Republicans and Carpetbaggers—Northerners who’d moved South—who are raising the taxes on Tara. Someone, perhaps Hilton, wants to buy Tara cheap when Scarlett inevitably can’t pay the taxes.
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...They rile them up with tales of white cruelty. Jonas Wilkerson, Tara’s old overseer, and Hilton, Cathleen’s husband, are head of the Bureau. They’re backed by the military and have the...
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...colonel in the Confederate army—in other words, every Southerner—is allowed to vote. “White trash” like Hilton and Wilkerson can vote, and they are running things. Now, a Black man can kill...
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Chapter 39
...took Suellen to Jonesboro, where Suellen visited Cathleen Calvert. Suellen insisted everyone was wrong about Hilton and he’s actually nice and smart. She began taking Gerald on walks past Ellen’s grave...
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...property of Union sympathizers. Suellen had learned from Mrs. McIntosh about this offer, and with Hilton’s help, gathered the information she needed about the Iron Clad Oath (the oath of Union...
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Yesterday, Will continues, Suellen took Gerald to Jonesboro. She had made a deal with Hilton that she’d give him some of the money if he attested that Gerald was a...
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