Unnamed Enslaved Tavern Worker
Character Key Number:
2410
Display Name:
Unnamed Enslaved Tavern Worker
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Unnamed Enslaved Tavern Worker
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
In Absalom! the "first black man, slave," that Sutpen ever sees is this "huge bull" of a man who throws his drunken father out of a "doggery," a rough tavern, in the middle of the family's journey across Virginia (182). The man's description focuses on his "mouth loud with laughing and full of teeth like tombstones" (182).