Unnamed Pregnant Slave
Character Key Number:
1728
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Unnamed Pregnant Slave
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Unnamed Pregnant Slave
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
In the story that Versh tells in The Sound and the Fury about the "old time," this is the slave he calls "family woman" - i.e. she is pregnant; when she looks the "bluegum" man "in the eye in the full of the moon," all the "chillen" she gives birth to are "born bluegum" (69).