HUMANITIES 399: Faulkner and Morrison -
History, Myth, and Literature in the South
"The past is never
dead. It's not even past."
-Gavin Stevens, Act
I, Scene III,
Requiem
for a Nun
Toni Morrison
biographies on the Web
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PBS series
February 9, 16
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County seat
Jefferson ... Home to
Compsons,
Sartorises,
Sutpens, Stevenses,
Coldfields, Benbows, Griersons,
Bundrens,
De Spains, and
Snopeses ... Once inhabited and later ceded by the
Chickasaw tribe, first settled by Europeans ca.
1811. . . Bounded on
the north by the
Tallahatchie River, on the south by the
Yoknapatawpha River ... Area 2400 square miles ... Population
(1936): Whites, 6298, Negroes, 9313 ...
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Photograph of
Frederick Douglass
in 1890
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