Unnamed Negro Woman Near Burden Place
Character Key Number:
2152
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Woman Near Burden Place
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Unnamed Negro Woman Near Burden Place
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
This woman is mentioned by Byron in Light in August, who tells Hightower that there is "a nigger woman, old enough to be sensible, that dont live over two hundred yards away" from the cabin on the Burden place where he has moved Lena (314). He says she can help Lena when she goes into labor.