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William King is a slave trader who accompanies indigo inspector Solomon Lindo on a visit to Robinson Appleby’s South Carolina plantation, where Aminata is enslaved. Alone with Aminata, King admits with perverse pleasure that it was he who sold Aminata to Appleby when she first arrived in the colonies. A hateful and deeply racist man, King embodies the bigotry and abject cruelty of the slave trade.
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William King Character Timeline in The Book of Negroes
The timeline below shows where the character William King appears in The Book of Negroes. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Book 2, Chapter 4
...them as Solomon Lindo, “the new indigo inspector” for South Carolina. The other visitor, William King, is a slave trader. Aminata thinks she sees Lindo smile at her, and she immediately...
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...an eyebrow when Aminata answers a question using proper English. When Appleby leaves to give King a tour of the house, Lindo tricks Aminata into revealing that she can read. He...
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Appleby invites Lindo outside to talk about indigo, leaving Aminata alone with King, who delights in terrorizing Aminata with talk of how easy she has it working on...
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