Unnamed Charlestonians
Character Key Number:
1445
Display Name:
Unnamed Charlestonians
Sort Name:
Unnamed Charlestonians
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
In The Unvanquished this is the group that Aunt Jenny refers to "us" and "we": her fellow Charlestonians during the War who, like herself, admired the efforts of the English blockade runner to break through the Union naval blockade, and so helped alleviate their sufferings during under the constrained wartime conditions, the time when "we had all forgot what money was, what you could do with it" (244).