Phoebe

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2020-02-20 11:05
Character Key Number: 
2738
Display Name: 
Phoebe
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Phoebe
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In Go Down, Moses Phoebe (or "Fibby," as her name is written by Buck McCaslin in the plantation ledger, 252) is one of the slaves that "Carothers McCaslin" inherited and brought with him to Yoknapatawpha from Carolina (249). She is the wife of Roscius (spelled "Roskus" in the ledger, 252), and like him manumitted when Old Carothers dies in 1837; also like him, according to the ledger, she "Dont want to leave" (252) and remains on the plantation until her death in 1849.

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