The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

This icon represents the group of Indian "men" who are sent out, along with the tribe's "big boys," to hunt down and capture the servant (334).

The group that pursues the runaway servant does not include the tribe's old men - or its women and children.

Like the women and old men, the tribe's children do not go out in pursuit of the fugitive slave.

These women, like the children and old men, stay on the plantation rather than participate in the chase after the servant.

These Indians are waiting to pursue the servant.

While "running" away from the plantation, the servant encounters this "motionless" man, "another Negro" (331). They exchange glances.

From his hiding place in the stable loft, the servant imagines the scene of the other slaves drumming "three miles away" (329). In his mind he sees "men children" being nursed by the women around the drum circle (329).

From his hiding place in the stable, the servant imagines the scene of the other slaves drumming and dancing three miles away at the river. Included in the scene are the "women with nursing children," feeding them from "their heavy sluggish breasts"; they are described as "contemplative" and "oblivious of the drumming" (329).

The narrative refers to the children of the slaves as "pickaninnies" twice: first when the servant sees them in the quarters, "naked in the dust" (328), and at the end, when he imagines the quarters and "the pickaninnies like ebony toys in the dust" (340).

The "headman" among the slaves tells the servant Issetibbeha is still alive, and offers him food (332).