Jessamine Reed

"' The first Reed witch in our family, daughter of a black Princess and slave owner's son born enslaved by a society she didn't choose but was protected and loved by her mentors and taught her mother's language that is why we still speak our mother's tongue '""- Aunt Judith to Aliyah and Sara"Jessamine "Jessa" Jasiri Reed is the only daughter and child between slave Atiena and the slave owner's son John Erastus Read.

She was married to another slave named Michael whom she had her only living child, a daughter named Joyce.

Powers
Jessamine like her mother was a "natural witch" meaning her powers "come from within". Jessa despite being born into bondage was a very strong and powerful witch who taught several fellow slaves and a few witch women.
 * Magic - The ability to connect with the mystical forces of nature and bend the universe to her liking whether it be the laws of reality, manipulation of luck, probability and science, jinxing people and making incidents and occurrences fall into place. This can be used with concentration of the mind, meditation, conjuring and invoking spirits and supernatural energies and using occult and spiritual tools and resources including rituals and chants for numerous affects.
 * Foresight - Jessa in her life was a powerful user of a form of Precognition known as Foresight is able to see past, present and future events, reveal unknown identities and much more with mere willpower. Her visions were always accurate and because of this was able to become a respectable wise women with people coming from Canada from England and someone from Germany to have her tell them their future often in secret.

Etymology

 * Jessamine is from a variant spelling of the English word jasmine, used also to refer to flowering plants in the cestrum family.
 * Jasmine also means "God's gift" in Persian.
 * Jasmine is from the English word for the climbing plant with fragrant flowers that is used for making perfumes. It is derived via Arabic from Persian یاسمین (yasamin), which is also a Persian name.
 * Jasiri means "bold, courageous" in Swahili.
 * Reed is a variant of Read which means "red" from Middle English read, probably denoting a person with red hair or complexion.

Trivia

 * She knew how to read and write through secretly stealing books and later with the help of Imara and later from Miss Kitty,