Unnamed Train Passengers

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2015-11-27 14:12
Text: 
The Reivers
Character Key: 
Unnamed Train Passengers 9
Display Name: 
Unnamed Train Passengers
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Train Passengers
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Multi Gender Group
Class: 
MultiClass Group
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Parsham: Depot in The Reivers (Location)
Biography: 

Lucius describes the (white) passengers who ride on the "Special," the major train that runs between Memphis and New York, as "the rich women in diamonds and the men with dollar cigars" (194). He mentions the "Jimcrow" cars in which "Negroes travelled" (194), but does not describe those passengers at all. ("Jimcrow," usually written Jim Crow, is a synonym for the Southern system of racial segregation.)

Individual or Group: 
Group
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