"Unc'" Henry
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Character Key:
Display Name:
"Unc'" Henry
Sort Name:
Henry, "Unc"
Race:
Black
Gender:
Male
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Farming
Specific Job:
Tenant Farmer
First Mentioned:
Origin:
Yoknapatawpha
Biography:
One of the blacks who sharecrops on the Sartoris estate; the possum hunt that Bayard and Narcissa go on with Caspey and Isom begins behind his cabin. ("Unc" is almost certainly short for "uncle," the familiar but demeaning label that was regularly affixed on many black male characters in the South, and more than once in Faulkner's fictions.)
Individual or Group:
Individual
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