Unnamed Haitian Planter
Character Key Number:
101
Display Name:
Unnamed Haitian Planter
Sort Name:
Unnamed Haitian Planter
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
The "French sugar planter" (199) who in Absalom! becomes Sutpen's "first father-in-law" (268) after Sutpen saves him and his plantation from a slave rebellion is not described in any detail. Since his daughter is described as "Haiti-born" (268), it seems likely that he himself is originally from France. He is apparently a widower, since he tells Sutpen that his daughter's "mother had been a Spanish woman" (283).