Unnamed Negro Men at Picnic

Submitted by padgettjb@breva... on Tue, 2017-10-03 11:10
Text: 
"A Bear Hunt"
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Unnamed Negro Men at Picnic
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Unnamed Negro Men at Picnic
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Unnamed Negro Men at Picnic
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Negro Church in County 3 in "A Bear Hunt" (Location)
Biography: 

These black men were at a Negro church picnic some twenty years ago when they were set upon by the pistol-wielding Provine gang, then taken "one by one" and tormented and demeaned by having the celluloid shirt collars they wear burned, "leaving each victim’s neck ringed with an abrupt and faint and painless ring of carbon" (65). The ring may have been "painless," but the psychological scar it left is not - as beccomes clear when it is revealed at the very end of the story that one of men who was forced to wear it is Ash.

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