Unnamed Train Passengers

Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2016-06-23 16:43
Text: 
Go Down, Moses
Character Key: 
Unnamed Train Passengers 7
Display Name: 
Unnamed Train Passengers
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Train Passengers
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
MultiClass Group
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Memphis in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Other Texts: 
"Lion"
Biography: 

The passengers on the train from Memphis to Hoke’s are “buttonholed” by Boon, forced to listen to him talk about Lion, and too intimidated to tell him that he is not allowed to drink on the train (222). Under the Jim Crow laws, railroad cars were racially segregated, so all these passengers would have been white. There would probably have been women in the railroad car with Boon, but the text says "the men he buttonholed" (222).

Individual or Group: 
Group
Character changes class in this text: 

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