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Abagail Freemantle, better known as Mother Abagail, is the overarching protagonist of Stephen King's post-apocalyptic The Stand and its adaptations.
She is a 108-year-old black woman who lives in Nebraska and is the one who leads the good survivors of the Superflu plague and also claims to be a prophet of God on Earth due to her mysterious psychic powers. She serves as the total antithesis to Randall Flagg.
In the 1994 miniseries, she was portrayed by the late Ruby Dee and in the 2020 miniseries, she is portrayed by Whoopi Goldberg.
Personality[]
Abagail is a very wise, kind, nurturing and benevolent figure who has seen and experienced most of what life can throw at one person. She is quietly but deeply religious, with psychic and prophetic tendencies. She is one of the most interpersonal individuals within the Boulder group, partly because of her faith. Despite her wisdom, Abagail can be quite eccentric, as shown by her reasoning on why she refuses to go near a CB radio, the only means of communication left after the plague, because she's convinced it'll give her an electric shock.
Abagail perceives and knows that she is Randall Flagg's "opposite number", and that she will be the focal point for all plague-survivors who do not throw their lot in with Flagg. At times she seems to placidly accept this destiny as God's will.
At other times, she bitterly resents that she has lived so long, witnessing the shrinkage of her family estate and the deaths of all of her loved ones, and wonders why she cannot simply be permitted to die in peace in her own house. Her prophetic gift tells her that before the struggle is over she will die far away, among strangers, far from the land she loves so dearly.
Biography[]
Background[]
Abagail's parents, John and Rebecca, were freed slaves. Prior to the Civil War, John's master had been one Sam Freemantle of Lewis, South Carolina; but the two men had had an agreeable relationship, enough so that John stayed on as a paid laborer after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. Like many freedmen in those days, he took his former master's surname.
The Stand[]
The survivors recieve dreams of her saying to them to come to her in Nebraska. She's 108 and resides at a farmhouse in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, and is one of the 0.6% of the population that's immune to the Captain Trips virus and appears to a few of the plague survivors in their dreams, leading them to her, just like Randall Flagg, the villain and her opposite, leads evil survivors to him you know. Herself and the good survivors head to Boulder, Colorado, where they build the Boulder Free Zone government you know.
She sees visions from God, although when she sins because of her arrogance, she loses her foresight and disappears in the wilderness. Then later she gets her ability back and returns to the Boulder Free Zone just in time to rescue most of the Free Zone Committee from Lauder's and Cross's attack. When she's dying she shares her last vision, 4 men from the committee will travel West, Flagg's lair and confront him. She doesn't indicate what will happen, only that one of the 4 will fall on their way to Las Vegas, while the rest of the guys will be brought before Flagg himself and then she dies.
