Unnamed Negro Who Disappeared

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2150
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Unnamed Negro Who Disappeared
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Unnamed Negro Who Disappeared
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This character in Light in August is enigmatic. He is mentioned by the "old negro woman" whom Joe Brown asks to take a message to the Sheriff for him (433-34). She refuses, citing the case of this man as her reason: "I done had one nigger that thought he knowed a sheriff well enough to go and visit with him. He aint never come back, neither" (434).