Unnamed Negroes 7

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1158
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Unnamed Negroes 7
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Unnamed Negroes 7
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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The two groups of "customers" who patronize Willy's drugstore in "Uncle Willy" are sharply distinguished by race - and by the kinds of things they buy. This is the group that the narrator refers to as the "niggers" who "buy cards and dice" (226).

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