Road to Oxford in Flags in the Dust (Location)

Display Label: 
Road to Oxford
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Event
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Context (text, as interpreted)
Other Texts Location Appears In: 
X: 
1349
Y: 
205
Description: 

The road between Jefferson and the town containing the "college" (i.e., Oxford, 143) runs between and over a series of hills. Alongside the road "sparse negro cabins squat on the slopes," surrounded by "warped farmed implements," huddled in "the shiftless fashion of negroes" (145).

Role: 
Site of Event
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
Country Road; Negro-occupied Cabin; Farm

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