Unnamed Negro Train Passengers

Submitted by sfr on Tue, 2014-01-28 15:32
Text: 
Sanctuary
Character Key: 
Unnamed Negro Train Passengers 1
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Unnamed Negro Train Passengers
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Unnamed Negro Train Passengers
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Multi Gender Group
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
On the Trains between Jefferson and Oxford in Sanctuary (Location)
Biography: 

Standing in the aisle of a "whites only" train car on his way to Oxford, Horace can see into "the jim crow car" coupled to it. What he sees are "hatted cannonballs [the heads of the black passengers] swaying in unison" amid the "gusts of talk and laughter" (168). (Under the South's Jim Crow laws, as the phrase is usually written, train passengers were racially segregated.)

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