Unnamed Enslaved Footman

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2020-03-02 09:15
Text: 
Requiem for a Nun
Character Key: 
Unnamed Enslaved Footman 2
Display Name: 
Unnamed Enslaved Footman
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Unnamed Enslaved Footman
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Enslaved Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Holston House in Requiem for a Nun (Location)
Biography: 

This "footman" is one of the two Grenier slaves who appear in the novel when Grenier drives his "imported carriage" into Jefferson to see the construction of the new courthouse. The other settlers expect the footman (along with the "coachman") to help with that work, but Compson invokes "the rigid protocol of bondage" - that is, the unwritten rules that govern master-slave relations - and says no "house-servant" like the footman can be ordered to do "manual labor" (27).

Individual or Group: 
Individual
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