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The three characters that suffered the most were Alice,Dana,  and Sarah. Alice suffered various situations like her seeing her husband being beat up by Tom Weylin, Alice being raped by Rufus, she is Rufus sex slave and she tries to escape that but she cant. she becomes pregnant by him and has a daughter,she suffered a lot of beatings for helping her husband Issac escape. Alice also deals with vague  memories about Dana and her marriage and who she is. Sarah also dealing with the fact that her two sons were sold by Tom Weylin the fact that she has to do whatever Rufus tells her to do or she might lose her daughter and she is unwilling to do that so she obeys orders that are given. Dana on the other hand was transported to the south to save Rufus Weylin. in the Weylin household she has to obey orders and that is hard for her to do because she is an educated black women and his wife Margret do not like that. she tries to educated Nigel and Rufus but she experiences a whipping because she gets caught. she gets a lot of back lash from marrying  a white man from her family and the household. The slaves and  the Rufus and tom and Margret Weylin have their own views on her marriage. The Weylin do not care about Dana or her marriage, Alice has mixed feelings about Dana's marriage one day she accepts her marriage and the next day she is attacking Dana about it.  Dana:s uncle does not agree with the marriage  he feels that she should be with a black man like him. Her aunt likes the marriage because

Dana will have light skinned children. Sarah disagrees with her marriage she is disgusted by it. Dana's life is all about survival.  she is also having problems with Rufus it seems like every time she helps him he turns around and rips her apart. however Dana does help all the slaves and tries to take care of them as much as she can especially Alice. she took care of Alice when she was beaten up. Dana had to make a big sacrifice to leave everything behind and help Rufus. Dana has to adjust to the slave life coming from an educated family she has to deal with ignorance. I think Dana is most heroic because she had to go through many horrible situations in order to survive she had to deal with abuse, ignorance, she had to adjust to the slave life, she had to deal with peoples judgment about her. she could not read any books because she would be punished and she was treated badly in that household and she had to keep a certain amount of respect in that Weylin house. Dana saved Rufus from drowning and was not even acknowledged at the fact that she saved his life because his parents were racists with ignorant attitudes.she was constantly being looked upon and called things that were not acceptable. Dana could no express herself the way she wanted to their was a limit to that and that was something that she had to go through with and she survived through everything.