Mrs. Lucas Beauchamp

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2016-07-14 10:29
Text: 
"A Point of Law"
Character Key: 
Molly Worsham Beauchamp
Display Name: 
Mrs. Lucas Beauchamp
Sort Name: 
Beauchamp, Mrs. Lucas
AKA: 
Molly Beauchamp
Mollie Beauchamp
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Family: 
McCaslin
Family (new): 
McCaslinsInPOL
First Mentioned: 
Lucas Beauchamp's Cabin in "A Point of Law" (Location)
Home: 
Lucas Beauchamp's Cabin in "A Point of Law" (Location)
Other Texts: 
"Go Down, Moses"
"Gold Is Not Always"
Go Down, Moses
Intruder in the Dust
Biography: 

Lucas' wife is not given a first name in this story. In Go Down, Moses Faulkner gives her two: Molly and Mollie. In this text she mainly scolds her husband in a dialect so thick ("What you gwine dis time er night?" 213) that it recalls the minstrel stage.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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