Unnamed Negro Boy

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Unnamed Negro Boy
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Unnamed Negro Boy
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
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When Christmas first arrives in Yoknapatawha, he runs into this boy, "swinging a tin bucket," "barefoot," and wearing "faded, patched, scant overalls" (227, 228) He answers Christmas' questions by telling him "where Miz Burden stay at" and that "colored folks around here looks after her" (227). As he walks away, he sings a risque song.

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