Unnamed Negro Inmates

Submitted by ekp23@cornell.edu on Mon, 2013-03-25 12:25
Text: 
"Pantaloon in Black"
Character Key: 
Unnamed Negro Inmates 3
Display Name: 
Unnamed Negro Inmates
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Negro Inmates
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Criminal
First Mentioned: 
County Jail in "Pantaloon in Black" (Location)
Real?: 
No
Other Texts: 
Go Down, Moses
Biography: 

The other inmates of the county jail where Rider is being held are described in crude burlesque terms when the deputy sheriff tells his wife how he ordered them to try to restrain Rider in the jailhouse: he calls them "the chain-gang niggers" and describes them as "a big mass of nigger arms and heads and legs boiling around on the floor” (255).

Note: 
black prisoners, criminals, law, justice, minstrelsy, burlesque, racial caricature
Individual or Group: 
Group
Character changes class in this text: 

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