Unnamed Negro Tenant Farmers 2

Character Key Number: 
2564
Display Name: 
Unnamed Negro Tenant Farmers 2
Sort Name: 
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.