Calvin Burden II
Text:
Character Key:
Display Name:
Calvin Burden II
Sort Name:
Burden, Calvin II
Parent:
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Dies
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Sunday, January 1, 1854 to Sunday, December 31, 1854
Origin:
The American West
Cause of Death:
Murder
Biography:
He is Joanna Burden's half-brother, "dark like [their] father's mother's people and like his mother" (248). He and his grandfather, also named Calvin, are murdered in the middle of Jefferson by Colonel Sartoris during Reconstruction "over a question of negro votes in a state election" (47). At the time of his death, as Joanna puts it, he is "a boy who had never even cast his first vote" (249).
Note:
Keywords: Reconstruction, racial violence, family history
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
digyok:node/character/4246