Unnamed Hired Delta Farm Workers
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2722
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Unnamed Hired Delta Farm Workers
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Unnamed Hired Delta Farm Workers
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
Both "Delta Autumn" and Go Down, Moses note that after slavery was abolished, planters and plantation owners employed "hired labor" to grow cotton in the Delta; these men are also described as the "Negroes who work" the land for "the white men who own it" (270, 323-24).