Unnamed Local Negroes

Character Key Number: 
1320
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Unnamed Local Negroes
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Unnamed Local Negroes
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In "The Bear" and again in Go Down, Moses, the narrator points out that the "big woodpecker" heard in the woods is "called Lord-to-God by Negroes" (285, 192).