Unnamed Convict Laborers
Character Key Number:
2554
Display Name:
Unnamed Convict Laborers
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Unnamed Convict Laborers
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
These are the prisoners in The Hamlet who had been sentenced to "south Mississippi convict camp" (244) in The Hamlet. They are hired "from the State for the price of their board and keep" (262). As convicts, they are forced to work without pay. (Convict labor was once a common part of the penal system in the South.)