Unnamed Enslaved Concubines
Character Key Number:
2395
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Unnamed Enslaved Concubines
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Unnamed Enslaved Concubines
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
In New Orleans, according to Mr. Compson's account in Absalom!, Bon takes Henry to a place where mixed-race slave women are sold as mistresses: "a row of faces like a bazaar of flowers, the supreme apotheosis of chattelry, of human flesh bred of the two races" to be sold as sexual objects (89).