Unnamed Slave of Pettibone
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Unnamed Slave of Pettibone
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Unnamed Slave of Pettibone
Race:
Black
Gender:
Male
Class:
Enslaved Black
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
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This character only appears in the narrative at third-hand, when Sutpen remembers what he heard his father saying about how he and some other poor white men "whupped one of Pettibone's niggers" (187). In response to Sutpen's question about who this slave was or what he "had done," the father replies only that he is "that goddamn son of a bitch Pettibone's nigger" (187).
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CUT: This icon represents the black one, identified only as "one of Pettibone's niggers," who is beaten by Sutpen's father and the other white men (187). Sutpen's questions reveal that his father had never seen this slave before, and that the slave himself hadn't done anything except be "that goddamn son of a bitch Pettibone's nigger" (187).
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Individual
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