Unnamed Enslaved Groom

Submitted by sfr on Sun, 2020-02-09 14:54
Character Key Number: 
2401
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Unnamed Enslaved Groom
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Unnamed Enslaved Groom
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In Absalom! this "negro groom" accompanies Henry Sutpen to college as his personal servant (77). Among his duties is carrying letters back and forth between Oxford and Sutpen's Hundred, and it is presumably he who at the beginning of the Civil War "steals into the quarters by night" to give "Judith's maid" Henry's final letter to Judith (273).

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