Unnamed Whites in Crowd

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1308
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Unnamed Whites in Crowd
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Unnamed Whites in Crowd
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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In "Go Down, Moses" and again in the chapter with that title in Go Down, Moses, the crowd that watches as the coffin carrying Samuel Beauchamp is taken off the train contains a "number of Negroes and whites both" (265, 363). The Negroes include "men and women too," but the white people there are described as "idle white men and youths and small boys"; there do not seem to be any white women among the spectators (265, 363).