Tennie Beauchamp
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Display Name:
Tennie Beauchamp
Sort Name:
Beauchamp, Tennie
Race:
Black
Gender:
Female
Class:
Enslaved Black
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
McCaslin
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Biography:
Tennie was born a slave and worked on the Beauchamp plantation until, as recounted in the novel's first chapter, "Was," she is won by Buddy McCaslin in a card game. She brings the surname Beauchamp with her when she is brought to the McCaslin plantation, where she and Tomey’s Turl marry and have six children. Amodeus, Carolina (or "Callina"), and an unnamed child all died in infancy, but James ("Tennie's Jim"), Sophonsiba ("Fonsiba"), and Lucas grew to adulthood. She remains on the McCaslin place after the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery; she nurses the infant Ike McCaslin, born in 1867.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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