Unnamed Planters

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2016-09-08 09:58
Text: 
Go Down, Moses
Character Key: 
Unnamed Planters
Display Name: 
Unnamed Planters
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Planters
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Management
Specific Job: 
Planters
First Mentioned: 
Road to the Delta in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Biography: 

As planters, the white men who own the land encroached upon the wilderness with their "gangs of slaves" before the Civil War and their "hired labor" ever since, turning an "impenetrable jungle" of cane and cypress and other trees into endless fields of cotton (323).

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

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