Unnamed Steamboat Passengers

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2017-11-23 09:55
Text: 
Absalom, Absalom!
Character Key: 
Unnamed Steamboat Passengers
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Unnamed Steamboat Passengers
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Unnamed Steamboat Passengers
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Multi Gender Group
Class: 
MultiClass Group
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Coldfield House in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)
Biography: 

The third-person narrator identifies the passengers on the Mississippi riverboats as "gamblers and cotton- and slavedealers" (26). Rosa refers to them as "drunken fools covered with diamonds and bent on throwing away their cotton and slaves before the boat reached New Orleans" (11).

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Group
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