Uncle Ash

Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2016-06-23 14:01
Text: 
Go Down, Moses
Character Key: 
Uncle Ash
Display Name: 
Uncle Ash
Sort Name: 
Ash, Uncle
AKA: 
Old Man Bush
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Domestic Service
Specific Job: 
Cook and Manservant
First Mentioned: 
Big Bottom in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Other Texts: 
"A Bear Hunt"
"The Bear"
"The Old People"
Biography: 

He is the elderly black cook at Major de Spain’s hunting camp who also works for him in his office in Jefferson. In the last section of "The Bear" chapter, he provides a kind of minstrel comedy when he tries hunting himself with Boon's gun and four shells he's collected over the years, including one that "Genl Cawmpson guv me" eight years earlier (308).

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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