Unnamed Steamboat Passengers

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2465
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Unnamed Steamboat Passengers
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Unnamed Steamboat Passengers
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No
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Absalom!'s third-person narrator identifies the passengers who travel on the Mississippi riverboats as "gamblers and cotton- and slavedealers" (26). Rosa refers to them as "drunken fools covered with diamonds and bent on throwing away their cotton and slaves before the boat reached New Orleans" (11).