Go Down, Moses, 260 (Event)

Submitted by sfr on Sun, 2016-08-21 15:59
Text: 
Go Down, Moses
Location: 
McCaslin Commissary in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Page Number: 
260
Order within Page: 
2
First 8-10 words of event: 
his own hand again, who was there and saw it
Page Event Ends: 
263
Era: 
Reconstruction (1866-1889)
Characters Present: 
Fonsiba
Cass Edmonds
Ike McCaslin
Fonsiba's Husband
Characters Mentioned: 
Unnamed Father of Fonsiba's Husband
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Thursday, July 1, 1886 to Saturday, July 31, 1886
Summary: 

When Fonsiba is seventeen, a Negro "from the North" comes to the commissary formally to notify Cass Edmonds that he intends to marry her and take her to his farm in Arkansas (261). Cass is angered by the man's attitude and tells him to "be off this place by full dark"; Ike is amazed that Fonsiba "ever kn[e]w him" (262).

Chronological Order: 
215.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Northerner, Marriage, Relations:Race, Uppity, Change
Actions:
Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues:
Clothes›And class | Clothes›And race | Identity, Cultural›Northerner | Identity, Cultural›Yankee | Race›Behaving "white"
Relationships:
Interracial›Pseudo-family

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