At the dueling establishment Bon takes Henry to in New Orleans, the door is opened by "a swarthy man resembling a creature out of an old woodcut of the French Revolution" (89); he speaks with Bon in French.
In Mr. Compson's account of the place in New Orleans where young women are purchased as sexual slaves, these "old women" serve as their duennas while they await sale (89).
In New Orleans, according to Mr. Compson's account, 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 (89) as sexual objects.
