Unnamed Youngest Negro in Delta Camp

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Unnamed Youngest Negro in Delta Camp
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Unnamed Youngest Negro in Delta Camp
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Domestic Service
Specific Job: 
Servant on Hunting Trip
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The "youngest Negro" performs a specific job for the white hunters: he sleeps in the tent with them, "lying on planks" beside the wood stove and tending it throughout the night (335). It is also "the youngest negro, the youth," who brings the young woman into the tent to talk with Ike McCaslin (339). When Ike mistakes the shadow of his white relative for the looming "shadow of the youngest negro," this character also becomes (in absentia) an extremely portentous presence (274, 335).

Individual or Group: 
Individual
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