Arthur Scott is a formerly enslaved man, and is a successful pharmacist who runs his own business. He left the South for a better life in New York, and has become a protective and stern patriarch. Though he seeks family unity, he is at odds with his daughter Peggy and her life choices.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Arthur was born into slavery in the South, and lived through hard times in his past. His own uncle was sold to another family before emancipation, and they lost contact forever after that. Arthur made a successful life for himself as a pharmacist in New York because a white man said he is someone people could trust. One night, he saw a woman named Dorothy being followed by two white man, while she was running away she bumped into him. Arthur stood up and confronted those two, staring them directly in the eyes, and they left.[1] Then he made sure Dorothy could go back home safely. Eventually their married and had a daughter named Peggy, though became estranged from his daughter.[2]
Season 1[]
Arthur comes to visit his daughter Peggy on 61st Street, where she has got a job as a secretary for Agnes van Rhijn after finishing school. He asks her to come home, but they compromise so that she agrees to come home for Dorothy's birthday. He asks her to work for him, though she refuses, and is confident in her own work. She tells him that The Christian Advocate has offered to publish her short stories, though Arthur is skeptical about a white publication being interested in her work.[3]
References[]
- ↑ The Gilded Age, season 2 episode 1: "You Don't Even Like Opera"
- ↑ The Gilded Age, season 1 episode 4: "A Long Ladder"
- ↑ The Gilded Age, season 1 episode 3: "Face The Music"