Henry Beauchamp
Character Key Number:
157
Display Name:
Henry Beauchamp
Sort Name:
Beauchamp, Henry
Parent Character Key:
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
Henry Beauchamp is the oldest child of Lucas and Molly Beauchamp in Go Down, Moses. He is raised alongside Roth Edmonds as the white child's "black foster-brother" (106), just as his father was raised alongside Roth’s father, Zack. When Roth, however, insists on drawing the color line between them, the seven-year-old Henry accepts the new terms of their relationship, but tells Roth, "peacefully," that "I aint shamed of nobody . . . Not even me" (110).