Unnamed Negro Railroad Porters and Waiters
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Unnamed Negro Railroad Porters and Waiters
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Unnamed Negro Railroad Porters and Waiters
Race:
Black
Gender:
Male
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Transportation
Specific Job:
Railroad Porter, Waiter
First Mentioned:
Biography:
Mink Snopes remembers these men near the end of the novel, when he recalls the "New Orleans-bound passenger train" that he had seen "thirty-eight or forty-years ago" at the station in Jefferson and the "uppity impudent" Negro porters and Negro waiters he could see through the windows of the cars (445). Using a term that seems reserved for blacks in the Jim Crow South, Mink thinks of them as "uppity" on principle - presumably because they are on the train and he is not. (This event is first described on pages 38-39.)
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Group
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