Unnamed Negro Widower
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Widower
Sort Name:
Unnamed Negro Widower
AKA:
Rider
Race:
Black
Gender:
Male
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
"Another one" - this is how Temple refers to the Negro husband who is driven by his despair and grief after the death of his wife to drink and then to drive him to "cut a white man's throat with a razor in a dice game" (156). This is the story that Faulkner tells in "Pantaloon in Black" as a short story and again as a chapter in Go Down, Moses; in those texts, mostly told from this man's point of view, his name is Rider, and he ends up being lynched. Temple's account doesn't mention that.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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