Unnamed Step-Father of Had-Two-Fathers

Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Thu, 2015-04-02 21:50
Text: 
"The Old People"
Character Key: 
Unnamed Step-Father of Had-Two-Fathers
Display Name: 
Unnamed Step-Father of Had-Two-Fathers
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Step-Father of Had-Two-Fathers
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Enslaved Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Dead
Family: 
Issetibbeha|Ikkemotubbe
Family (new): 
IkkemotubbesInOLD
First Mentioned: 
Choctaw|Chickasaw Plantation in "The Old People" (Location)
Home: 
Choctaw|Chickasaw Plantation in "The Old People" (Location)
Date of Birth: 
Saturday, January 1, 1785
Other Texts: 
Go Down, Moses
Biography: 

Had-Two-Fathers' step-father is "one of the slaves which [Ikkemotubbe] inherited" from Moketubbe (203). Ikkemotubbe forces him to marry the enslaved woman who is already pregnant slave with Ikkemotubbe's child. This unnamed male slave is the other father in Sam's name, but it is not clear in the 1940 magazine version of the story whether the child of Ikkemotubbe that he raises named Had-Two-Fathers is Sam or - as seems more likely in the text - Sam's father. When Faulkner revised the story for publication in Go Down, Moses (1942), he cleared up the ambiguity.

Note: 
Paternity Forced Marriage Inherited Slaves
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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