Unnamed Slaves in Delta
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Unnamed Slaves in Delta
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Unnamed Slaves in Delta
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
Both "Delta Autumn" and the chapter with that title in Go Down, Moses briefly describe the process by which generations of planters created the plantation agriculture of the Delta. Before the Civil War it was these "gangs of slaves" who provided the labor force which turned the wilderness into cotton fields (270, 323).