Unnamed Post-War Night Riders

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2452
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Unnamed Post-War Night Riders
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Unnamed Post-War Night Riders
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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In the immediate aftermath of the South's surrender, according to Rosa's account in Absalom!, "men with pistols in their pockets gathered daily at secret meeting places in the towns"; a deputation from this group unsuccessfully demands that Sutpen join them (130). Rosa never gives the group a name, but when she later describes their "sheets and hoods and night-galloping horses" it seems obvious that the Ku Klux Klan is being evoked (134). (There are entries for Klansmen in other texts in this index.)