Henry Beauchamp

Character Key Number: 
157
Display Name: 
Henry Beauchamp
Sort Name: 
Beauchamp, Henry
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

Henry Beauchamp is the oldest child of Lucas and Molly Beauchamp in Go Down, Moses. He is raised alongside Roth Edmonds as the white child's "black foster-brother" (106), just as his father was raised alongside Roth’s father, Zack. When Roth, however, insists on drawing the color line between them, the seven-year-old Henry accepts the new terms of their relationship, but tells Roth, "peacefully," that "I aint shamed of nobody . . . Not even me" (110).

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