Aunt Thisbe
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Aunt Thisbe
Sort Name:
Thisbe, Aunt
Race:
Black
Gender:
Female
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Domestic Service
Specific Job:
Servant
First Mentioned:
Biography:
When Molly Beauchamp tries to placate her husband by saying she will take Roth Edmonds' infant son back to the big house, she says that "Aunt Thisbe can fix him a sugar-tit - " (49). This is the novel's only reference to Thisbe, but it's safe to infer from it that she is a servant in the Edmonds household. A "sugar-tit" is a piece of cloth wrapped around sugar, honey or milk; it was a 19th-century way to feed an infant when a mother's breast or, in this case, a wet-nurse's breast is unavailable.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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