Apollos Reed

A slave preacher possessed by an African demon.

History
A young African-American outlyer possessing an ancestral birthmark and other old country artifacts on the run for murdering his would be owner. He hides himself on the border of Plantation where an old white minister, Reverend Henbane holds sway over a powerful group of enslaved Africans on the large plantation called the Arrow family with the bones of their dead nganga.

John, then called Mburu, or Burry, kills the white minister, taking his gear, and emerging from the forest as a powerful conjure worker

Calling himself Apollos he takes Reverend Henbane's place and begins influencing the Arrow clan.