Unnamed Ex-Slaves of Carothers McCaslin

The three paragraph introductory to the novel says that "some of the descendants" of the former McCaslin slaves are named McCaslin (5), but curiously no such characters appear in the rest of the story. There the family name of the many people who are descendants of Carothers McCaslin and his slaves is Beauchamp. The novel does refer to "the other ex-slaves of old Carothers McCaslin" - other than Sam Fathers, that is - much later, noting that they farm "allotted acres" on the plantation, presumably as the Edmonds' tenant farmers (161); this group has an entry of its own in our data.