Captain Studenmare

Submitted by sfr on Wed, 2020-02-26 14:04
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2876
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Captain Studenmare
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Studenmare, Captain
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In "A Courtship," Captain Studenmare is the owner of the steamboat that visits the Chickasaw plantation annually. He depends upon another man, David Hogganbeck, to pilot it. After he fires Hogganbeck for dereliction, he is forced to return to Natchez overland with his "steamboat slaves," the enslaved Negroes who do the physical work on board the ship (378).

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