Unnamed Negro Midwife

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Unnamed Negro Midwife
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Unnamed Negro Midwife
AKA: 
Dicey
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Professional
Specific Job: 
Midwife
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The midwife who delivers Milly Jones' baby is an "old negress" (151). She lives in a cabin "three miles" from the fishing camp (230). Although she runs away immediately when she overhears Wash killing Sutpen, the authorities find her a week later and it is from her that most of the details of the last scene in Sutpen's life are learned. (In "Wash" she is called "Dicey.")

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