Negro Hollow|Freedman Town in Intruder in the Dust (Location)

The novel refers to both the "Hollow" and "Freedmantown" as the place or places where the Negro population of Jefferson lives (38). Variants of both these names occur in other Yoknapatawpha fictions, usually as referring to the same area between the Square and the railroad tracks. The black residents of this district work in town, either as domestics in white residences or as menial laborers in white businesses.