Unnamed Negro Shooting Victim

Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sat, 2016-07-23 18:31
Text: 
The Hamlet
Character Key: 
Unnamed Negro Shooting Victim
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Unnamed Negro Shooting Victim
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Unnamed Negro Shooting Victim
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Train Station where Man is Shot in The Hamlet (Location)
Biography: 

At a "bleak" train station he is passing through, Labove witnesses a white man shooting this "negro" (138). Although the Negro seems to be dying, and tells the "white folks" trying to help him that "I awready been shot," when his clothes are pushed aside the bullet that hit him "rolls out . . . bloodless" (139).

Individual or Group: 
Individual
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