Unnamed Enslaved Mother of Sam Fathers

Submitted by padgettjb@breva... on Fri, 2015-05-22 15:59
Text: 
"The Bear"
Character Key: 
Unnamed Enslaved Grandmother|Mother of Sam Fathers
Display Name: 
Unnamed Enslaved Mother of Sam Fathers
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Enslaved Mother of Sam Fathers
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Enslaved Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Dead
Family: 
Issetibbeha|Ikkemotubbe
Family (new): 
IkkemotubbesInBAR
First Mentioned: 
Unnamed Family's Plantation in "The Bear" (Location)
Other Texts: 
"A Justice"
"The Old People"
Go Down, Moses
Biography: 

Sam Fathers' mother was "a slave woman" who was impregnated by a Chickasaw chief (282). The magazine version of "The Bear" also calls her "a Negro slave" (294), but says nothing more about her. Go Down, Moses (1942) explains that after she becomes pregnant, the chief (identified there as Ikkemotubbe) marries her to a enslaved man, which explains Sam's last name - "Fathers," short for "Had-Two-Fathers." The magazine version of "The Old People" features a similar story, but there, the slave woman and Chickasaw chief are referred to as Sam's grandparents.

Note: 
JBP: Added 5/22/15; first mentioned in event 282.1
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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