Unnamed Negro Steamboat Hands
Character Key Number:
2435
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Steamboat Hands
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Unnamed Negro Steamboat Hands
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
This is one of the two groups of men in Absalom! from whom Charles E. C-V. Bon - a "white-colored man" (167) with a "coal black" wife (166) - deliberately provokes a racial reaction: "the negro stevedores and deckhands on steamboats . . . who thought he was a white man" (167).