Unnamed Slaves at Burden Place
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2192
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Unnamed Slaves at Burden Place
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Unnamed Slaves at Burden Place
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
When he returns to the Burden place after Lena's baby is born in Light in August, Hightower has a brief vision of the antebellum plantation that it once was, and in particular of "the rich fecund black life of the quarters," the "fecund [enslaved] women" and their "prolific naked children" (407).