Go Down, Moses, 260 (Event)

Submitted by sfr on Sun, 2016-08-21 15:40
Text: 
Go Down, Moses
Location: 
McCaslin Commissary in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Page Number: 
260
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
and now his father's again, whose old commander
Page Event Ends: 
260
Era: 
Reconstruction (1866-1889)
Characters Present: 
Fonsiba
Lucas Beauchamp
Cass Edmonds
Buck McCaslin
Buddy McCaslin
Characters Mentioned: 
Tennie Beauchamp
N. B. Forrest
Tomey's Turl
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Friday, January 1, 1869 to Thursday, December 31, 1874
Summary: 

The ledger entry recording the birth of Fonsiba, written by Buck with his left hand, provides an occasion for the narrator to also mention Buck and Buddy's deaths (sometime around 1873) and the birth of Lucas (around 1874), like Fonsiba the child of Tennie and Tomey's Turl.

Chronological Order: 
87.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Civil_War, Slave-Trading, Birth, Illness:Rheumatism, Death, Writing
Actions:
Bodily›Birth / Being born
Cultural Issues:
Health and Illness›Rheumatism | Slavery›Purchase
Themes and Motifs:
Death
Relationships:
Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics:
Allusion, Historical›Forrest, Nathan Bedford | Typography/Orthography›Handwriting | Typography/Orthography›Italics

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