Unnamed Negro Tenant Farmers 6
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3763
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Unnamed Negro Tenant Farmers 6
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Unnamed Negro Tenant Farmers 6
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
The noise of the car arriving at the Edmonds place in The Reivers brings "Cousin Louisa and everybody else on the place" to see it (61). This entry assumes that "everybody else" is black, and belongs to one of the families of tenant farmers who work an allotted piece of the Edmonds property. We assume that because Lucius adds that the group does not include "the ones Cousin Zack could actually see from his horse" (61). Here "the ones" clearly refers to the people whom the white land owner Zack expects to see working in the fields instead of taking time off to stare at a car.