Ohio River in Go Down, Moses (Location)

Location Key: 
Display Label: 
Ohio River
Map Icon: 
OutOfYoknapatawpha
Authority : 
Text (when unambiguous)
X: 
2432
Y: 
920
Description: 

When James Beauchamp runs away from the McCaslin plantation he doesn't stop "until he had crossed the Ohio River" (102). Before the Civil War, the Ohio was a boundary between slave and free states. Beauchamp was born the year after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. For him, the Ohio presumably represents the dividing point between South and North.

Role: 
Only Mentioned in Text
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
River

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