Colonel John Sartoris
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Colonel John Sartoris
Sort Name:
Sartoris, Colonel John
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Dead
Family:
Sartoris
Family (new):
Occupation:
Management
Specific Job:
Planter
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
An important patriarch in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha fiction, Colonel Sartoris is the ex-slaveholder and Confederate soldier who kills Joanna Burden's grandfather Calvin Burden I and her brother Calvin Burden II on the Jefferson square in 1874 "over a question of negro votes in a state election" (47).
Note:
keywords: slavery, Reconstruction, racial violence
Other texts for which there is no entry: Big Woods and "Mississippi"
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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