Unnamed Self-Emancipated Negroes

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2020-02-10 10:32
Text: 
Absalom, Absalom!
Character Key: 
Unnamed Self-Emancipated Negroes 4
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Unnamed Self-Emancipated Negroes
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Unnamed Self-Emancipated Negroes
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Multi Gender Group
Class: 
Enslaved Black
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Coldfield House in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)
Biography: 

When Absalom! says that Coldfield's two women servants are "among the first Jefferson negroes to desert and follow the Yankee troops" during the Civil War (66), it indirectly refers to the other enslaved men and women in Jefferson who, like almost all the slaves at Sutpen's Hundred, emancipate themselves as soon as the Union army arrives.

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