Unnamed Descendants of the Frenchman's Slaves

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2016-05-26 13:34
Text: 
"Lizards in Jamshyd’s Courtyard"
Character Key: 
Unnamed Descendants of the Frenchman's Slaves
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Unnamed Descendants of the Frenchman's Slaves
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Unnamed Descendants of the Frenchman's Slaves
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Other
Specific Job: 
Musicians
First Mentioned: 
Grenier Plantation|Old Frenchman Place in "Lizards in Jamshyd’s Courtyard" (Location)
Other Texts: 
The Hamlet
Biography: 

Frenchman's Bend contains very few African Americans - none appear in this story - but the narrator does refer to the slaves who labored on the Frenchman's place before the Civil War as "the progenitors of saxophone players in Harlem honky-tonks" (136). This seems a picturesque way to suggest that most of the descendants of the Frenchman's slaves live in the North.

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Group
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