Cassius Madison

Cassius is Scipio's son. He was named for the head hunter of Anne Colleton's Marshlands Plantation who later became chairman of the Congaree Socialist Republic. Growing up in a world filled with hate and fear, the young Cassius sought to strike back at Freedom Party oppressors. In early 1943, in order to get out of going to church early on Sunday mornings, he told his father that he was joining a resistance group--which meant that he escaped a Freedom Party cleanout that obliterated the remaining black section of the Terry. After the Terry was cleaned out, he moved throughout the countryside, working where he could and trying to avoid capture until he hooked up with a resistance gang led by Gracchus.