McCaslin Commissary in "Pantaloon in Black" (Location)

Submitted by dotty.dye@asu.edu on Mon, 2013-03-18 12:03
Text: 
"Pantaloon in Black"
Location Key: 
McCaslin Commissary
Display Label: 
Commissary
Map Icon: 
Office/store
Authority : 
Context (text, as interpreted)
Other Texts Location Appears In: 
"Go Down, Moses"
"Gold Is Not Always"
Go Down, Moses
X: 
1745
Y: 
310
Description: 

The commissary on the Edmonds plantation to which Rider’s wife, Mannie, walks a half mile each Saturday after Rider gets his weekly pay from the sawmill. A plantation "commissary" is a store where tenants can buy farming supplies and food from the same (white) man who 'shares' their crops. Mannie and Rider aren't tenant farmers, but she does her weekly shopping at the commissary. The money that she doesn't need to spend she "banks" in "Edmonds' safe" (240).

Role: 
Only Mentioned in Text
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
Plantation

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