Unnamed Overseers on Virginia Plantations
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2469
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Unnamed Overseers on Virginia Plantations
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Unnamed Overseers on Virginia Plantations
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
As the young Thomas Sutpen moves east across Virginia in Absalom!, he notes these "white men" on "fine horses" (182), the "white men who superintend the work" of the field slaves (184).