Unnamed Negro Farmer
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Farmer
Sort Name:
Unnamed Negro Farmer
Race:
Black
Gender:
Male
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Farming
Specific Job:
Farmer
First Mentioned:
Biography:
Driving out to the Caledonia cemetery on Monday morning, Chick sees only a single Negro: a man plowing one of the fields along the road, "the face black and gleam[ing] with sweat and passionate with effort, tense concentrated and composed" (145). The white boy and the black man look "eye to eye into each other's face before the Negro looks away" (145).
Individual or Group:
Individual
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