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
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Chapter 49
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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 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
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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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