Unnamed Enslaved Body Servant(1)

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2017-11-25 10:34
Text: 
Absalom, Absalom!
Character Key: 
Unnamed Enslaved Body Servant 1
Display Name: 
Unnamed Enslaved Body Servant(1)
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Unnamed Enslaved Body Servant(1)
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Enslaved Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Tidewater Virginia in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)
Biography: 

While he lies outside his big house "in a barrel stave hammock . . . with his shoes off," the owner of the plantation on which Sutpen's father works is waited on by a slave "who wore every day better clothes than [Sutpen] or his father and sisters had ever owned"; this slave's task is "to fan" the owner "and bring him drinks" (184). It is possible that this is the same man as the enslaved "butler" who tells Sutpen later to go around to the mansion's back door (187), but that is not indicated in the text.

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

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