Unnamed Enslaved Coachman

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2020-03-02 09:04
Text: 
Requiem for a Nun
Character Key: 
Unnamed Enslaved Coachman 2
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Unnamed Enslaved Coachman
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Unnamed Enslaved Coachman
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Enslaved Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Holston House in Requiem for a Nun (Location)
Biography: 

According to the account of Yoknapatawpha's history in Requiem for a Nun, the first slaves were brought into the county by Louis Grenier. This "slave coachman" is one of the two Grenier slaves who appear in the narrative when Grenier drives into Jefferson to see the construction of the new courthouse. The other settlers expect the two slaves to help with that work, but Compson invokes "the rigid protocol of bondage" - that is, the unwritten rules that govern master-slave relations - and says no "stable-servant" like the coachman can be ordered to do "manual labor" (27).

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Individual
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