Unnamed Self-Emancipated Negroes 3
Character Key Number:
932
Display Name:
Unnamed Self-Emancipated Negroes 3
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Unnamed Self-Emancipated Negroes 3
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
The story "Skirmish at Sartoris" briefly acknowledges the many enslaved people who sought freedom by emancipating themselves as the Union Army passed through Mississippi. Groups of these people, and a few of them as individuals, are described in some detail in the earlier story "Raid." The chapter "Skirmish at Sartoris" in the novel The Unvanquished revises the reference in "Skirmish" to the "Negroes" who "passed in the road [beside Hawkhurst] all night long" (59) as "the niggers passing in the road" at night (189).