Unnamed Enslaved Steamboat Hands
Character Key Number:
634
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Unnamed Enslaved Steamboat Hands
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Unnamed Enslaved Steamboat Hands
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
The men whom the narrator of "A Courtship" refers to as "the steamboat slaves" (367, 378) are the deckhands and firemen who do the physical work on board Captain Studenmare's riverboat.