Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-02-25 07:31
In Go Down, Moses the McCaslin and Beauchamp plantations are "twenty-two miles" - half a day's ride - apart (287). The route between them includes "the long flat" section "about three miles" from the Beauchamps (10). We assume the road between them is essentially a continuation of the 'northeast road' that leads to the McCaslin place from Jefferson, but the novel doesn't say enough about the location of the "Warwick" - as Sophonsiba Beauchamp wants us to call her and her brother's plantation - to be sure of that (11).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-02-25 07:27
This icon represents the group of cabins that form the "quarters" on the McCaslin plantation (161). This part of the plantation is not described, but it is implicitly there (though no longer in use) when after the death of Ike McCaslin's great-grandfather, Uncle Buck and Uncle Buddy moved all the slaves into the big house their father built for himself. However, the quarters are occupied again by the Negro tenant farmers who work on the plantation in the decades after Emancipation.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-02-25 07:19
The group of cabins that form "the quarters" on the McCaslin plantation (161) is not described in any of the stories that are part of the Go Down, Moses cluster - but the abiding existence of the cabins that were originally built to house slaves is acknowledged. In the novel, the original slave quarters is implicitly there (though no longer in use) when after the death their father, Uncle Buck and Uncle Buddy McCaslin move all the slaves into the big house their father built for himself. If this represents a form of progress, however, it is temporary.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-02-25 07:13
Hubert Beauchamp's plantation is situated along a ridge in the next county, twenty-two miles away from the McCaslin-Edmonds' plantation. Miss Sophonsiba, Hubert's sister, tries to make people call the place "Warwick" after the manor in England (11). Most of the novel's first story, "Was," takes place on this plantation, inside the big house but also around its grounds, including the slave quarters, the spring house, and a cotton house. At the end of section 4 of "The Bear," the novel re-visits the plantation after the Civil War.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-02-25 07:08
Hubert Beauchamp's plantation is situated along a ridge in the next county, twenty-two miles away from the McCaslin-Edmonds' plantation. Miss Sophonsiba, Hubert's sister, tries to make people call the place "Warwick" after the castle in England (11). Most of "Was," the first story or chapter in Go Down, Moses, takes place on this plantation, inside the big house but also around its grounds, including the slave quarters, the spring house, and a cotton house. At the end of section 4 of "The Bear," the novel re-visits the plantation after the Civil War.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-02-25 07:04
This is a large cotton plantation seventeen miles northeast of Jefferson, Mississippi. It includes a mansion, a number of cabins, outbuildings like a blacksmith shop and a smoke house, and a commissary. The plantation's big house is described in two conflicting ways. In "The Fire and the Hearth," it began as a modest structure with "two long wings which Carothers McCaslin had built," connected by an open passageway, and it is "old Cass Edmonds" who, in his "pride," drastically enlarged it" (44). Cass' alterations were made after the Civil War.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-02-25 06:53
The lot where Ike McCaslin builds his "cheap frame bungalow" (5) in Jefferson is given to him and his wife by his wife's father on their marriage. After his wife's death, he lives there with his wife's sister and her children, and occupies only one room.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-02-25 06:43
The hunting and fishing camp thirty miles from Jefferson owned by Major de Spain where the men from Jefferson and other parts of Yoknapatawpha hunt deer and the occasional bear in the surrounding woods. The camp is populated only during the hunting season in the fall. It is described as "a paintless six-room bungalow set on piles above the spring high-water" (184) on the south-side of the Tallahatchie River. The camp kitchen is a detached structure. There is also a barn on the site.
