Unnamed Negro Crap Shooters

Submitted by ekp23@cornell.edu on Mon, 2013-03-25 11:14
Text: 
"Pantaloon in Black"
Character Key: 
Unnamed Negro Crap Shooters
Display Name: 
Unnamed Negro Crap Shooters
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Negro Crap Shooters
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Production
Specific Job: 
Members of the Timber Gang and Mill Crew
First Mentioned: 
Sawmill Where Rider Works in "Pantaloon in Black" (Location)
Real?: 
No
Other Texts: 
Go Down, Moses
Biography: 

These are six or seven men who work with Rider, three from his timber gang and three or four from the mill crew, who are shooting craps with the white nightwatchman's dice in the tool-room at the back of the mill’s boiler shed (250).

Note: 
gambling, mill, dice, race relations, black labor
Financial Status: 
laborer (works for wages)
Individual or Group: 
Group
Character changes class in this text: 

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