Aunt Thisbe

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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
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.

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Individual
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