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When trying to supervise the field workers, Mary becomes infuriated at him for his speaking English and looking at her with a vaguely mocking look she whips him in the face, but he does not retaliate. MosesĪn extraordinarily intelligent and strong African laborer in the employ of the Turners, first in the fields and then in their house. After Mary's murder, he gives up on farming and goes to Northern Rhodesia to mine. He is disturbed by seeing Mary allowing Moses to dress her. Charlie Slatter assigns him to work under Dick Turner for a time so that he can then take care of Turner's farm for a time. Tony MarstonĪn idealistic young British man who has come to Southern Rhodesia to make money. He becomes rich after the First World War and hopes to become even richer by buying up Turner's farm and expanding to other businesses.
He treats his workers poorly and exhausts his soil to make money quickly. Charlie SlatterĪ farmer neighboring Dick Turner's farm, Charlie Slatter represents the cruelly extractive kind of colonialist farmer. After Mary gets into an illicit relationship with Moses and Charlie Slatter practically forces Dick to leave his farm, Dick goes insane at the prospect of being anywhere else. He feels intensely lonely and takes Mary as a wife to assuage these feelings.
He incurs debts that he never manages to pay off while managing to stave off bankruptcy. Dick Turnerīrought up in an impoverished family in a suburb of Johannesburg in South Africa, Dick Turner worked several jobs before giving up plans to study to become a veterinarian and traveling to Southern Rhodesia to live independently on a farm of his own. She eventually loses her mind and is murdered by him. This frustration channels into her latent feelings of racism, which leads to a strange inverted attraction when the African man she beat begins to take care of her. On the far, she is oppressed both by the isolation and by her husband's lack of success. She falls for Dick Turner and leaves with him to his farm. Raised in poverty with a drunkard father who would spend any savings on alcohol, Mary manages to make a life for herself based on her intelligence and diligence she lives in a boardinghouse for girls and works ably as a secretary in town.