Unnamed Negro Field Workers
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Unnamed Negro Field Workers
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Unnamed Negro Field Workers
Race:
Black
Gender:
Multi Gender Group
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Farming
Specific Job:
Field Workers
First Mentioned:
Biography:
In its account of the position Sam Fathers occupies on the McCaslin-Edmonds plantation, the novel mentions the tenant farmers who "farmed allotted acres" but also acknowledges the existence of the men who do "field-work for daily wages" (161). However, although wage labor was replacing tenantry in parts of the South, no such salaried field-workers appear in the novel.
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Group
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