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The Cloud-Cutter

This contraption symbolizes innovation, freedom, and the concept of dreaming big.

Faith Plantation

This place represents oppression, cruelty and hopelessness, especially for African Americans.

Philip's Suicide

This event is the tragic reason and catalyst that sets a main character's escape and adventure in motion.

Death

This is perhaps the only thing a slave has any control over at all, and some slaves came to see it as a means of gaining freedom on another plane.

Wash's Drawings

These entities represent promise, ingenuity, and the unharnessed and dormant potential from an unexpected source.

The Wilde Estate

This crumbling estate in England represents the passing of an old way of life, including slave ownership and slavery.

Wash's Burns

These markings on a character's skin are the physical marks that represent the deeper psychological and spiritual wounds of slavery.

Nudibranch

This obscure but favorite sea creature of a main...

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