Unnamed Spectators at Train Race
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Unnamed Spectators at Train Race
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Unnamed Spectators at Train Race
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This icon represents the various "watchers — the black and the white, the old men, the children, the women who would not know for months yet if they were widows or childless or not" (96) who were witnesses of the locomotive raid described by Drusilla Hawk in "Raid." Drusilla implies that many of these spectators were part of a "grapevine" of oppressed and deprived people who knew of the raid before it happened (97). Drusilla's story is based on the actual Andrews Raid, which took place on April 12, 1862, but her version takes several liberties with the facts of the historical incident.
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