Unnamed Negro Inmate

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1876
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Unnamed Negro Inmate
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Unnamed Negro Inmate
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
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"Somewhere down the corridor" of the Alabama jail where Popeye awaits trial for murder in Sanctuary "a negro was singing" (310) - not unlike the "negro murderer" who is awaiting his execution in the Jefferson jail where Lee awaits his trial much earlier (114).

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