Unnamed Old Negro Woman
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Unnamed Old Negro Woman
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Unnamed Old Negro Woman
Race:
Black
Gender:
Female
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
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Biography:
This is the "old negro woman" who sits, "smoking a pipe, her head wrapped in a white cloth," whom Joe Brown calls "Aunty" when he asks her to help him get a message to the sheriff (433-34). At first she refuses, saying that the one black man she knew who "thought he knowed a sheriff well enough to go and visit with him . . . aint never come back" (434).
Individual or Group:
Individual
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