Unnamed Negroes on Steamboat

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2438
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Unnamed Negroes on Steamboat
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Unnamed Negroes on Steamboat
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No
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When Clytemnestra and Charles E. S-V. Bon take a steamboat from New Orleans in Absalom!, they travel "on the freight deck, eating and sleeping with negroes" (160).