Unnamed Negro Farm Workers
Character Key Number:
3084
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Unnamed Negro Farm Workers
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Unnamed Negro Farm Workers
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
The white man who rents the Harriss plantation in "Knight's Gambit" decides after a year to bring "his own Negro farm-hands" from Memphis to work the land (160). It seems as if they are wage laborers (who are paid by the day or month) rather than sharecroppers or tenant farmers (who are paid by a share of the crop they raise), but that is not made explicit.