Unnamed Negro Parson

Character Key Number: 
1582
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Unnamed Negro Parson
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Unnamed Negro Parson
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

This is the imposing-looking Pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Flags in the Dust who leads the delegation that calls on Old Bayard Sartoris, requesting him to pay back to the church the $67.40 that Simon embezzled from the building fund. The narrator describes him as "a huge, neckless negro in a Prince Albert coat . . . with an orotund air and a wild, compelling eye" (282).