Editing Gone with the Wind (novel) (section)

====Tara====
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| quote = I made Tara up, just as I made up every character in the book. But nobody will believe me.
| source =—Margaret Mitchell<ref>[http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/pdf/Margaret_Mitchell_Life_and_Times.pdf "The Strange Story Behind Gone With the Wind"], Actor Cordell, Jr. (February 1961) ''Coronet'', p. 106. Retrieved April 24, 2011.</ref>
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* '''Mammy:''' {{anchor|Mammy}}is Scarlett's nurse. An enslaved woman, Scarlett's grandmother enslaved her; she raises Ellen O'Hara.<ref name=autogenerated6 /> Mammy is "head woman of the plantation".<ref name=autogenerated2>Part 1, chapter 5</ref>
* '''Pork:''' is Gerald O'Hara's valet and the first person he enslaved. Gerald won the enslavement of Pork in a poker game (as he did ownership of the Tara plantation in a separate poker game).<ref name=autogenerated7 /> When Gerald died, Scarlett gave his pocket watch to Pork. She offered to have the watch engraved, but Pork declined the offer.
* '''Dilcey:''' is Pork's wife and an enslaved woman of mixed Native American and African descent.<ref name=autogenerated57>Part 1, chapter 4</ref> Scarlett encourages her father to buy Dilcey and her daughter from John Wilkes, the latter as a favor to Dilcey that she never forgets.<ref name=autogenerated6 />
* '''Prissy:''' is Dilcey's daughter.<ref name=autogenerated57 /> Prissy is Wade's nurse and goes with Scarlett to Atlanta.<ref name=autogenerated4 />
* '''Jonas Wilkerson:''' is the Yankee overseer of Tara before the Civil War.<ref name=autogenerated57 />
* '''Big Sam:''' is a strong, hardworking, enslaved field worker and the foreman at Tara. In post-war lawlessness, Sam rescues Scarlett from would-be thieves.<ref>Part 4, chapter 44</ref>
* '''Will Benteen:''' is a "South Georgia [[Cracker (term)|cracker]]",<ref name=autogenerated54>Part 3, chapter 30</ref> Confederate soldier, and patient listener to the troubles of all. Will lost part of his leg in the war and walks with the aid of a wooden stump. The O'Haras take him in on his journey home from the war; he manages the farm after his recovery.<ref name=autogenerated54 /> Fond of Carreen O'Hara, he is disappointed when she decides to enter a convent.<ref name=autogenerated58>Part 4, chapter 39</ref> He later marries Suellen and has at least one child, Susie, with her.<ref name=autogenerated13 />