Phoebe

Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2016-06-23 17:44
Text: 
Go Down, Moses
Character Key: 
Phoebe
Display Name: 
Phoebe
Sort Name: 
Phoebe
AKA: 
Fibby
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Enslaved Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Dead
First Mentioned: 
McCaslin Commissary in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Home: 
McCaslin-Edmonds Place in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Biography: 

Phoebe (or "Fibby," as her name is written by Buck McCaslin in the plantation ledger, 252) is one of the slaves that "Carothers McCaslin" inherited and brought with him to Yoknapatawpha from Carolina (249). She is the wife of Roscius (spelled "Roskus" in the ledger, 252), and like him manumitted when Old Carothers dies in 1837; also like him, according to the ledger, she "Dont want to leave" (252) and remains on the plantation until her death in 1849.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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