Martinique (Location Key)

The "French architect" who designs and helps construct the buildings and grounds at Sutpen's Hundred in Absalom, Absalom! came to Yoknapatawpha "all the way from Martinique" (26). Like Haiti, where Supten himself lives for a time in the novel, Martinique is an island in the Caribbean. At that time the architect would have been there, it was a French colony with an economy that depended on sugar and slaves.