Unnamed Negro Boys 2

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2020-02-29 07:54
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3083
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Unnamed Negro Boys 2
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Unnamed Negro Boys 2
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Yes
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In "Knight's Gambit" these "two Negro boys" work on the Harriss plantation and "lay the trail of torn paper from one jump to the next" for the steeplechase (165). (The context makes it seem likely that these are men rather than "boys," and that that word should be understood as an example of how the Jim Crow culture used stereotypical language to demean black men.)

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