Hubert Beauchamp

Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Tue, 2016-06-21 14:51
Text: 
Go Down, Moses
Character Key: 
Hubert Beauchamp
Display Name: 
Hubert Beauchamp
Sort Name: 
Beauchamp, Hubert
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Secondary
Vitality: 
Dies
Occupation: 
Management
Specific Job: 
Planter
First Mentioned: 
McCaslin-Edmonds Place in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Home: 
Beauchamp Plantation in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Biography: 

The full name of Ike McCaslin's Uncle Hubert, as readers learn when he signs the i.o.u.'s he leaves his nephew instead of a golden treasure, is Hubert Fitz-Hubert Beauchamp. The son of the man who built it, he owns the "Warwick" plantation that is half-a-day’s ride from the McCaslin plantation. Until her marriage, his sister, Sophonsiba, lived with him. After the Civil War he takes a black mistress for a while, and then lives with an aged black servant "in one single room" in the decaying mansion (290) until it burns down. His vainglorious attempt to leave a legacy for his nephew, Ike McCaslin, is a comic failure, but it also speaks to the changing fortunes of a plantation family beyond the McCaslin line that is the novel’s primary focus.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
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