Unnamed Negro Mothers

Character Key Number: 
1417
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Unnamed Negro Mothers
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Unnamed Negro Mothers
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

While hiding in the stable, the servant in "Red Leaves" imagines the scene of the other slaves drumming and dancing three miles away at the river. Included in the scene are the "women with nursing children," feeding them from "their heavy sluggish breasts"; they are described as "contemplative" and "oblivious of the drumming" (329).

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