What are the motifs in The Unvanquished: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner?

The Plight of the Southern Negro is a recurring idea. Though concrete and open statements about slavery and the post-War conditions of the newly-freed blacks, there are undertones of Faulkner's position throughout the work. First, the reader is introduced to Ringo, an obviously bright, capable child, teen and young adult, who, if he were white, would have opportunities similar to those of Bayard. At the novel's end, however, Ringo is still serving Bayard as a friend, perhaps, but clearly in a still-subservient status. Loosh, the "traitorous" slave, who divulge the burial place of Granny's silver to the Yankees, echoes Faulkner's hatred of slavery.