Bubbles is young slave that is in the ownership of Dolly Rose. He is a talented boy when it came to tuning pianos, but Dolly Rose keeps him in rags and beats him. He becomes the subject of a great problem for Christophe who hates the institution of slavery and takes the boy in when Dolly Rose treats the boy too badly. He places the boy in the back of the classroom with the other children, but within a week, the other children are pulled from their classes. Eventually, Christophe submits and pulls the young man out of the class, but the boy returns to Dolly as he feels guilt over Christophe's situation. Later, Dolly sells Bubbles back to Christophe for the sum of one dollar so as to be cruel enough to make Chrisophe a slave owner.