Slough where Ringo Whips Ab Snopes (Location Key)

A slough is a narrow, shallow inlet or pond, usually in swampy terrain. In "Vendee" this slough is where, after seeing a frozen water mocassin, they find Ab Snopes, where they have to burn "Ringo's stick," where Ringo (legally still a 'slave') whips Ab Snopes (legally a 'white' man), and where Uncle Buck leaves them to return to Jefferson with Ab (110, 171). When in The Hamlet V.K. Ratliff refers to this event some years later, he says it takes place "in the woods" (32).