This document summarizes characters from the book "Struggle and Survival". It discusses a Portuguese governor in the 1700s who sought to make peace between Portugal and the Caiapo people in Africa to gain access to gold. It also describes an African girl named Damiana who helped the surviving Caiapo people and a man named Diego Vasicuio who practiced his own religion in Spanish-controlled Peru in the 1670s, drawing scrutiny from the Catholic Church. It concludes by discussing a shoemaker apprentice named Francisco Baquero in 1770s Spain who endured long days of work but eventually opened his own shoe store.