Philadelphia

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Philadelphia
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Philadelphia
AKA: 
Philadelphy
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Enslaved Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Family: 
Strother
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Biography: 

Philadelphia is a house servant - i.e. one of the slaves who work inside the Sartoris mansion, rather than in the cotton fields. In this story she attends to Melisandre as both a maid and a kind of nursemaid. She is married to Lucius, who is impatient to be free, which is why Granny sarcastically refers to her as "the wives of all the free men" (669).

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Individual
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