Unnamed Northern Laborers
Character Key Number:
2783
Display Name:
Unnamed Northern Laborers
Sort Name:
Unnamed Northern Laborers
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
Ike's account of U.S. history in Go Down, Moses divides the North during the Civil War era into the capitalist class and the workers. That second group is who is represented by this entry: "the New England mechanics who didn't even own land," the factory workers who lived in "rented tenements," and so on (273).