Saddie
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Saddie
Sort Name:
Saddie
Race:
MixedBlackWhite
Gender:
Female
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Secondary
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
Sartoris
Family (new):
Occupation:
Domestic Service
Specific Job:
Nurse
First Mentioned:
Origin:
Yoknapatawpha
Biography:
One of Elnora's three children, Saddie works as Miss Jenny's caretaker, "tending her as though she were a baby" (728). She sleeps in the big house, "on a cot beside Virginia Du Pre's bed." Genealogically, she is Miss Jenny's great-niece, the illegitimate granddaughter of her brother John, though that relationship is not discussed by any of the characters.
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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