Unnamed Negro Sawmill Workers 2

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2020-02-17 11:33
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Unnamed Negro Sawmill Workers 2
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Unnamed Negro Sawmill Workers 2
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Apparently except for Fentry, the workers at Quick's sawmill in Frenchman's Bend are all black. At least, when Isham Quick describes Fentry's arrival at the mill in "Tomorrow," he says he did "the same work" and drew "the same pay as the niggers done" (103). (In the larger Yoknapatawpha context, this is an exception to the usual absence of Negroes, except for a few domestic servants, in the Frenchman's Bend area.)

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