Unnamed Negroes in Freedman Town

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2020-02-01 14:42
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Unnamed Negroes in Freedman Town
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Unnamed Negroes in Freedman Town
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In Light in August these Negroes live in Freedman Town, the specifically black section of Jefferson. Though they are described as "invisible" to Joe, as he walks past their cabins he is very conscious of the way they and their "negro smell" seem to enclose him, "like bodiless voices murmuring talking laughing in a language not his" (114). He is particularly conscious of the murmuring "bodiless fecundmellow voices of [the] negro women" there (115).

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