Hamp Worsham's Place|Negro Servants' Cabin (Location Key)

The Negro servants who work for Belle Worsham in Go Down, Moses are Mr. and Mrs. Hamp Worsham. The Negro servants who work for Eunice Habersham in Intruder in the Dust are not given names. But in these three texts (including the short story version of "Go Down, Moses"), the husband is the brother of Mollie (or Molly) Beauchamp and like her descended from slaves who belonged to the ancestors of the white woman who now employs them to cook for her and to help raise chickens on the remains of what had been a kind of plantation. The textual evidence seems to make it close to certain that Faulkner imagined both white women and both black couples as the same characters, which is how we treat them. The Moses texts do not identify the place where Hamp and his wife live, but Intruder says that - like Paralee at the Stevenses in Intruder or like Negro servants in other fictions - the servants live "in a cabin in the back yard" behind the big house (74). So we assume Hamp and his wife also live in such a cabin, which likely was originally built as a slave cabin. (Moses does say that Miss Worsham "lives alone" in the big house, 260, 356.)