Unnamed Negroes at Ball
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2436
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Unnamed Negroes at Ball
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Unnamed Negroes at Ball
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
These are the "negroes" at the "ball" in Absalom! where Charles E. S-V. Bon starts a fight (164). Before the fight they are described as "dancing" and having a "dice game in the kitchen"; in the fight they are described as "a moiling clump of negro backs and heads and black arms and hands clutching sticks of stove wood and cooking implements and razors" (164).