Unnamed Negro Tenant Farmers 2
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2564
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Unnamed Negro Tenant Farmers 2
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Unnamed Negro Tenant Farmers 2
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
In Ratliff's account of the barn burning at De Spain's in The Hamlet, he refers to these men who are fighting the fire as "his [i.e. De Spain's] niggers" (19). That could mean they are servants, though it seems more likely that, like Ab Snopes, they are tenant farmers working other pieces of land at De Spain's.