![]() Hiram also possesses a special power called Conduction, which allows him to transport himself, and eventually other people, from one place to another. ![]() Hiram has a photographic memory but he can’t remember his mother, nor can he recall how Howell Walker separated them when Hiram was just nine years old. When Hiram is nineteen, Maynard dies in an accident in the river Goose. Howell’s white son, Maynard, is Hiram’s brother, master, and the heir of Lockless. Hiram’s mother, Rose, was enslaved, while his father, Howell Walker, is the white master of Lockless. The protagonist, Hiram, is an enslaved African-American man who was born and raised on a tobacco plantation and estate called Lockless. In The Water Dancer, the enslaved are known as the Tasked, and the slaveowners are known as the Quality. ![]() Its universe is close to that of the historical antebellum American South, but has added surreal elements. The Water Dancer is set in Virginia, during the time of slavery. ![]()
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