Nicholas Radcliff

Nicholas (b. 1878) was the illegitimate son of Atlantean General Victor Radcliff and a Negro slave woman named Louise. He was conceived during the Atlantean War of Independence. Louise's owner Marcel Freycinet, wrote proudly of Louise's pregnancy to Radcliff, and refused Radcliff's offers to purchase either the mother and the son.

Nicholas was difficult for Radcliff on several levels. First, there was the problem of Radcliff's adultery--Radcliff's wife Meg was understandably furious. Second, the Radcliffs' children had all died in infancy. Third, after the War, Radcliff was elected as a Consul of Atlantis. Fourth, the idea that his only surviving son would grow up a slave gnawed at Radcliff, who, while owning no slaves of his own, was largely indifferent to the practice.