Negro Cabin in Flags in Flags in the Dust (Location)

"The house was a cabin," writes the narrator as Bayard approaches this location (360). Throughout the Yoknapatawpha fictions the distinction between 'houses' and 'cabins' is often a racial one, as it apparently is in this case - i.e. 'cabins' are where Negroes live. In this case its occupants are a husband, a wife and three children, none of whose names are ever given. It is further from Jefferson than the MacCallum place, on the road but in a very isolated part of the country, but how much further is not specified. The man grows cotton "right up to his back door" (363), the cabin is a single impoverished room with "a broken hearth" (364). Bayard spends his last night in Yoknapatawpha - Christmas Eve - in the hayloft of the barn, and in the morning has breakfast and Christmas dinner with the family in the cabin before the man takes him eight miles further to the next town.