Unnamed Self-Emancipated Negroes 4

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2020-02-10 10:30
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Unnamed Self-Emancipated Negroes 4
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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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