Unnamed Negro Tenant Farmers 3

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Unnamed Negro Tenant Farmers 3
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Unnamed Negro Tenant Farmers 3
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
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In "Go Down, Moses" and again in the chapter with that title in Go Down, Moses Gavin Stevens notes that "the only white person" on the McCaslin-Edmonds place is Roth Edmonds himself (260, 357). Although he doesn't say so explicitly, the rest of the community there is made up of the black tenant farmers, sharecroppers, who farm small parcels of the land he owns. Stevens is sure "they wouldn't" tell Mollie about her grandson's fate, even if they ever "hear about it" (260, 357).