How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.[Part].Section.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"You, n*****! Take off your hat!
"Are you the husband?"
"That's right," Lucas said.
"Say sir to the court!" the clerk said. Lucas glanced at the clerk.
"What?" he said. "I don't want no court. I done changed my—"
"Why, the uppity--" the clerk said. (2.3.2.51, 54-8)
This is slavery "gone underground." Lucas can hold his own with any white man, but in the eyes of the clerk, he's just an uppity "n*****" who doesn't know his place.
Quote #5
"Them damn n*****s," the deputy said. "I swear to godfrey, it's a wonder we have as little trouble with them as we do. Because why? Because they aint human. They look like a man and they walk on their hind legs like a man, and they can talk and you can understand them and you think they are understanding you, at least now and then. But when it comes to the normal human feelings and sentiments of human beings, they might just as well be a damn herd of wild buffaloes..." (3.2.2)
Faulkner uses the deputy to express the average white Southerner's views. Remember, he's talking about a man (Rider) who murdered a crook in self-defense.
Quote #6
White man's work, when Sam did work. Because he did nothing else: farmed no allotted acres of his own, as the other ex-slaves of old Carothers McCaslin did, performed no field-work for daily wages as the younger and newer negroes did--and the boy never knew just how that had been settled between Sam and old Carothers, or perhaps with old Carothers' twin sons after him. For, although Sam lived among the negroes, in a cabin among the other cabins in the quarters, and consorted with negroes [...] and dressed like them and talked like them and even went with them to the negro church now and then, he was still the son of that Chickasaw chief and the negroes knew it. (4.1.13)
This is another example of how the justifying logic of slavery was still in effect after Abolition. Sam's Chickasaw "blood" means he doesn't have to do the "base" work that other ex-slaves agree to do. Even they know that Sam's different because of his racial background.