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Month: November 2024

A New Narrative For William Veal

Posted on November 27, 2024July 25, 2026 | by Alvin Blakes | 13 Comments

The William Veal of So Red the Rose is a fictional person, but no doubt his character is appropriated from the real-life William Veal of Holly Grove Plantation in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. In the novel, he is imagined as a loyal family servant, a defender of the slave owners, and their view…

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