Unnamed Negro Tenants and Servants
Character Key Number:
2618
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Tenants and Servants
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Unnamed Negro Tenants and Servants
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
This entry represents the two groups of Negroes who are connected with the Hoake family in The Hamlet: the "negro field hands" who work on the farm (149) and the "negro servants" who work inside the house, and with whom Alison Hoake McCarron leaves her nine-year-old boy when she goes to bring her husband's body home (150).