Submitted by sek4q@virginia.edu on Wed, 2015-02-25 20:19
This icon represents both the "armed guard" who stands outside Samuel Beauchamp's cell in the penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois, and the prison officials who enter the cell and prepare Beauchamp for his execution (256).
Submitted by chad.jewett@uco... on Wed, 2015-02-25 17:30
Hamp's wife is a big woman "in a bright turban" whom Gavin Stevens sees at Miss Worsham's participating in the mourning service for Mollie's lost grandson (263).
Submitted by chad.jewett@uco... on Wed, 2015-02-25 17:25
Belle Worsham is "quite old" and "thin" (260). Though impoverished now, she is the granddaughter of a man who owned slaves, including the ancestors of Mollie, whose (honorary) maiden name of Worsham acknowledges the sisterly relationship the two women had before Mollie's marriage. "Miss Belle," as Mollie calls her (266), lives in "the decaying house her father had left her" (260), and with the help of Mollie's brother Hamp and his wife supports herself by growing and selling "chickens and vegetables" (260).
Submitted by chad.jewett@uco... on Wed, 2015-02-25 17:23
An "old man" with a "fringe of white hair" and a belly that is "bloated from the vegetables" on which he lives but whose face resembles that of "a Roman senator" (263), Hamp is brother to Mollie Beauchamp. He aids and consoles her in mourning her grandson, Samuel Beauchamp.
Submitted by chad.jewett@uco... on Wed, 2015-02-25 17:20
Carothers "Roth" Edmonds owns and manages the McCaslin-Edmonds place, a large estate worked by black tenant farmers. Though he never appears directly in this narrative, he is a major character in the book version of Go Down, Moses, where he is identified as a McCaslin on his mother's side.
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Tue, 2015-02-24 17:29
Captain Bowen is in charge of the Union cavalry troop which Rosa, Bayard, and Ringo encounter on their way back home. He himself doesn't appear in the story, but one of his lieutenants blames him for mounting them on captured horses.