Kudjoe

"Kudjoe", born Simon Daniel Owens, November 1st, 1860, in the Union State of New Amsterdam, is the son of a preacher and a nurse. At 6' 1", he has a muscled build, medium-brown complexion and light brown eyes. He wears his hair in long dreadlocks. His mother is from the Confederacy, which has given him a drawling speech that others assume is the result of his being slow. He is not, nor is he illiterate though he feigns as much after his experiences being kidnapped and sold into enslavement at the age of 17. Prior to this he was in training to be a doctor.

Kudjoe met John Henry on the Underground Railroad and gives him the idea to head west, which eventually takes them to Orient. There Kudjoe witnessed and studied Western and Eastern military and civilian medicine while acting as assistant to a missionary doctor. This is how he and John Henry meet Lord Aries and his crew. He practices shooting with Hugo Diamond, though he would much prefer not to kill.