Abe

Character Key Number: 
1472
Display Name: 
Abe
Sort Name: 
Abe
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

At the Sartoris Thanksgiving dinner in Flags in the Dust, Dr. Peabody mentions Abe as one of the gillies who help the gentlemen who come to fish his pond. ("Gilly" is a Scottish term for a servant who assists a fisherman.) When asked "how many [other black retainers] have you got," Peabody says "six or seven" adults, and an unspecified number of "scrubs" (i.e. children), but they are not named (303).

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