Luigi and Angelo Capello are near- identical twins who come to Dawson's Landing after Aunt Patsy placed an ad for an open room. They have been traveling around the world and wanted to relax. They are good looking and smooth talkers and so the townspeople fall over themselves trying to be associated with them. Luigi has a dark secret in his past, he once killed a man who tried to rob them and was about to kill Angelo. Luigi's temper gets him into trouble in Dawson's Landing. .
Roxy, is a beautiful slave who can pass for white, though she is one-sixteenth black. To save her son from ever being sold away from her, she switches him with the child of her white master, who looks just like her son and was born on the same day. Her son Chambers, now called "Tom," grows up as a white man and heir to an estate. Her master's child, tom, now called "Chambers", grows up a slave. "Tom" grows into a cruel, cowardly man. His gambling debts lead him, under Roxy's guidance, to rob houses, sell the now- freed Roxy as a slave, and finally to murder his uncle, Judge Driscoll, in a botched robbery attempt.
When Roxy switches the babies she was using them as a means to an end. The switch was the means to the end of her baby's slavery. She wanted to keep him close to her so if she switched her baby with the baby of her master he will always be close by although she won't be able to be with him. Kant's golden rule states "Do on to others as you would have them do on to you". I believe that Roxy would have wanted her son to switch her if he were in her position. Although I don't think that Kant would agree that what she did was moral. Kant believes the categorical imperative is moral because it treats people as ends to themselves. He feels the hypothetical imperative isn't moral because it treats people as means to ends which is using a person for self gain.
Mill believes in the overall happiness for everyone.
