Go Down, Moses, 287 (Event)

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2016-08-15 05:26
Text: 
Go Down, Moses
Location: 
Beauchamp Plantation in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Page Number: 
287
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
and carried it back home with him where he
Page Event Ends: 
287
Era: 
Reconstruction (1866-1889)
Characters Present: 
Hubert Beauchamp
Sophonsiba Beauchamp
Cass Edmonds
Buck McCaslin
Buddy McCaslin
Unnamed Slaves on Beauchamp Plantation
Characters Mentioned: 
Buddy McCaslin
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Tuesday, October 15, 1867 to Thursday, December 31, 1868
Summary: 

Hubert Beauchamp takes the silver cup back to Warwick, where he lives in very reduced circumstances after the Civil War. The Negroes on the plantation have mostly escaped, and he seems uninterested in trying to adjust to what the narrative calls "dark times then in Mississippi" (287).

Chronological Order: 
82.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Reconstruction, Emancipation, Post-War, Allusion:Nero
Actions:
Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues:
Age›Old age
Themes and Motifs:
Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Inheritance›Property | Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Remembering
Relationships:
Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics:
Diction›Ethnic slur

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