Unnamed Negro Hunters

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2659
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Unnamed Negro Hunters
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Unnamed Negro Hunters
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In "The Old People" and again in Go Down, Moses, this group of Negro hunters see "the sudden burst of flame" as Jobaker's hut burns down (204, 164). In the short story they are explicitly described as "possum-hunting" (204); in the novel they are just "hunting" (164).