Unnamed Enslaved Footman 2

Character Key Number: 
3163
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Unnamed Enslaved Footman 2
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Unnamed Enslaved Footman 2
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

According to the account of Yoknapatawpha's history in Requiem for a Nun, the first slaves were brought into the county by Louis Grenier. This enslaved "coachman" is one of the two Grenier slaves who appear in the narrative when Grenier drives his "imported carriage" into Jefferson to see the construction of the new courthouse. The other settlers expect the two slaves to help with that work, but Compson invokes "the rigid protocol of bondage" - that is, the unwritten rules that govern master-slave relations - and says no "house-servant" like the coachman can be ordered to do "manual labor" (27).