Unnamed Negro Mourners

Submitted by ekp23@cornell.edu on Sat, 2013-03-23 17:27
Text: 
"Pantaloon in Black"
Character Key: 
Unnamed Negro Mourners
Display Name: 
Unnamed Negro Mourners
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Negro Mourners
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Multi Gender Group
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Negro Graveyard in "Pantaloon in Black" (Location)
Real?: 
No
Other Texts: 
Go Down, Moses
Biography: 

The African Americans who gather at Mannie's funeral are "the meager clump of [Rider's] kin and friends and a few old people who had known him and his dead wife both since they were born" as well as the men Rider works with at the mill (238).

Note: 
mourners, black funerals, cemetery, kin, old people, elderly, mill gang
Individual or Group: 
Group
Character changes class in this text: 

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