Bookwright's farm appears in two of the texts set in Frenchman's Bend - The Hamlet and "Tomorrow." The first mentions that it is half a mile from Varner's store; in the second it is the scene of a crime. It also is mentioned a long way from Frenchman's Bend in The Mansion: while buying drinks legally in New York City, Ratliff mentions "Uncle Cal Bookwright's springhouse back home" in Yoknapatawpha (190).
Never named, this "country girl of seventeen" (90) falls for Buck Thorpe's swagger. Her father, referred to only as "Bookwright," apparently discover her during "the inevitable elopement at midnight" and shoots Buck (90). Her subsequent fate is not mentioned.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Mon, 2013-09-23 11:14
This "trader" may be the American who buys the protagonist after he reaches America, though that isn't specifically said (330). The narrative identifies him as "a deacon in the Unitarian church" (330), but the Unitarians don't have deacons. (In the antebellum era Unitarianism was associated with the North, so perhaps the term here is - like calling the captain of the story's slave ship a "New England captain" (330) - is meant to associate slavery in the U.S. with the North.)
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Mon, 2013-09-23 11:11
The captain of the slave ship that carries the servant "to America" is described as "drunken" and from "New England" (330). During the voyage he reads the Bible to the slaves he is transporting.
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Wed, 2013-09-18 17:06
Like his son, Doom had a slave as a personal servant. At his death many years earlier, this unnamed slave also ran away to avoid being killed and buried with his master - but he too was pursued and captured.
Issetibbeha's slave runs thirty miles "up the creek bottom" before turning around and returning to the outskirts of the plantation (331). The Indians state that he reaches "Mouth of Tippah" before turning back (336). The actual Tippah creek in Mississippi gives its name to a county to the northeast of Lafayette.
In "Red Leaves" Issetibbeha's slave runs thirty miles "up the creek bottom" before turning around and returning to the outskirts of the plantation (331). The Indians state that he reaches "Mouth of Tippah" before turning back (336). The actual Tippah creek in Mississippi gives its name to a county to the northeast of Lafayette.
