Unnamed Negro Old Woman 3

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651
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Unnamed Negro Old Woman 3
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Unnamed Negro Old Woman 3
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
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In "Raid" and again in The Unvanquished this is the "one old woman" among the huge group of self-emancipated slaves crowding toward the river and the Union army; she tries to get a ride on Rosa Millard's wagon so that she can "see the water before she died" (48, 103).