Unnamed Negroes 3

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1389
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Unnamed Negroes 3
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Unnamed Negroes 3
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In "A Justice" Sam Fathers lives among Negroes in the quarters on the Compson farm. They apparently work the Compson land on shares as tenant farmers, and they distinguish themselves from Sam by calling him "a blue-gum" (343), or "Uncle Blue-Gum" (344).