Unnamed Negroes Who Flee Christmas
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Unnamed Negroes Who Flee Christmas
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Unnamed Negroes Who Flee Christmas
Race:
White
Gender:
Multi Gender Group
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
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In a cabin that he enters during his flight, Christmas "sees negro dishes, negro food," and feels the presence of "flight and abrupt consternation" (335). From these details we can construct the blacks who live in the cabin, but in fact they never appear except as the "long, limber black hands" that put the food in front of him. And they are only heard in the "wails of terror and distress" that Christmas "hears without hearing them" (335). As he eats, Christmas registers their fear and calls himself "their brother" (335).
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