Unnamed Descendants of the Frenchman's Slaves

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2017-09-14 10:32
Text: 
The Hamlet
Character Key: 
Unnamed Descendants of the Frenchman's Slaves
Display Name: 
Unnamed Descendants of the Frenchman's Slaves
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Unnamed Descendants of the Frenchman's Slaves
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Other
Specific Job: 
Musicians
First Mentioned: 
Old Frenchman Place Graveyard in The Hamlet (Location)
Home: 
New York City in The Hamlet (Location)
Other Texts: 
"Lizards in Jamshyd’s Courtyard"
Biography: 

The descendants of the slaves who once worked on the Old Frenchman's plantation are identified as "saxophone players in Harlem" (375). With this reference the narrative looks ahead both to the Great Migration in which thousands of southern blacks moved to northern cities (which was just beginning at the time the novel takes place) and to the Jazz Age of the 1920s.

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

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