Absalom, Absalom!, 66 (Event)

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2017-12-02 15:43
Text: 
Absalom, Absalom!
Location: 
Coldfield House in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)
Page Number: 
66
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
Even the two negresses which he had freed
Page Event Ends: 
66
Era: 
Antebellum (1831-1860)
Characters Present: 
Goodhue Coldfield
Unnamed Self-Emancipated Negroes
Unnamed Servants of Goodhue Coldfield
Unnamed Union Soldiers
Narrative Status: 
Told
Date: 
Wednesday, January 1, 1840 to Wednesday, December 31, 1862
Summary: 

The narrative sums up Coldfield's relationship to the "two negresses" who worked for him (66). When he acquired them ("through a debt . . . not purchase"), they were enslaved; he freed them immediately, but kept them on as servants as they worked off the amount of their "current market value"; during the War, however, they emancipated themselves as soon as the first "Yankee troops" entered the region (66). [SOURCE: Father]

Chronological Order: 
114.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Loss
Cultural Issues:
Slavery›Commodity | Slavery›Manumission | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs:
Absence/Loss
Relationships:
Hierarchical›Employer-employee

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