Unnamed Patroller
Character Key Number:
1458
Display Name:
Unnamed Patroller
Sort Name:
Unnamed Patroller
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
In The Unvanquished Bayard describes "the Patroller (sitting in one of the straight hard chairs and smoking one of Father's cigars too but with his hat off)" having caught some of the Satoris slaves away from the plantation (16). In the antebellum South patrollers watched at night to capture any slaves who were out of their quarters without authorization from their owners, and pursued fugitive slaves.