Unnamed Slave of Pettibone
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2459
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Unnamed Slave of Pettibone
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Unnamed Slave of Pettibone
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
This character only appears in Absalom! at third-hand, when Sutpen remembers what he heard his father saying about how he and some other poor white men "whupped one of Pettibone's niggers" (187). In response to Sutpen's question about who this slave was or what he "had done," the father replies only that he is "that goddamn son of a bitch Pettibone's nigger" (187).