Unnamed Negro Convicts

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Unnamed Negro Convicts
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Unnamed Negro Convicts
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Black
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Free Black
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Minor
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Alive
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When Sheriff Hampton goes out to investigate Vinson Gowrie's grave, he takes along two Negro prisoners from the jail to do the digging. Both are dressed in "blue jumpers and the soiled black-ringed convict pants which the street gangs wore" (136; in this context "street gangs" are chain gangs or convict work gangs). The narrative makes no effort to distinguish these "two Negroes," as they are repeatedly called (154, 156, 157, etc.). Both are equally anxious about their task, especially when Vinson's father appears.

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