Unnamed Negroes in Crowd

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2019-08-09 15:38
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Unnamed Negroes in Crowd
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Unnamed Negroes in Crowd
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In "Go Down, Moses" and again in the chapter with that title in Go Down, Moses, the crowd that watches as the coffin carrying Samuel Beauchamp is taken off the train contains a "number of Negroes and whites both" (265, 363). These are the "probably half a hundred Negroes, men and women too," who are there (265, 363).

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