Sam Father's Step-Father

Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2016-06-23 13:30
Text: 
Go Down, Moses
Character Key: 
Unnamed Step-Father of Had-Two-Fathers
Display Name: 
Sam Father's Step-Father
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Step-Father of Sam Fathers
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Enslaved Black
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Dead
Family (new): 
IkkemotubbesInGDM
First Mentioned: 
Big Bottom in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Other Texts: 
"A Justice"
"The Old People"
Biography: 

Doom "pronounces a marriage" between this man - "one of the slave men he has just inherited" upon becoming "The Man" - and the enslaved woman Doom himself has impregnated (158). Along with the woman and her child, two years later he is sold to Carothers McCaslin. He is one of the two “fathers” in Sam’s Chickasaw name, “Had-Two-Fathers,” the other of course being Ikkemotubbe himself (158).

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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