Unnamed Negro Undertaker

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2019-08-09 15:24
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1303
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Unnamed Negro Undertaker
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Unnamed Negro Undertaker
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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In "Go Down, Moses" and again in the chapter with that title in Go Down, Moses, the Jefferson undertaker who buries the black citizens of Yoknapatawpha is himself a Negro. It was typical practice throughout the Jim Crow South at the time of the story to segregate funeral parlors as well as cemeteries. The "Negro undertaker" himself does not appear in either text (265, 363).

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