Unnamed Negro Tenant Farmers
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Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Tenant Farmers
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Unnamed Negro Tenant Farmers
Race:
Black
Gender:
Male
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Farming
Specific Job:
Tenant Farmers
First Mentioned:
Biography:
As the narrator says, "the Sartoris place was farmed on shares" (289). The black tenant farmers are not slaves, though Simon thinks of them as "field niggers," a label left over from slavery (241). In the narrative these share croppers are more like part of the landscape than characters, but they are mentioned several times - first when they "raise their hands" to "salute" Bayard as he drives home from the bank at the beginning of the novel (8).
Individual or Group:
Group
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