Quarters on McCaslin-Edmonds Plantation in Go Down, Moses (Location)

This icon represents the group of cabins that form the "quarters" on the McCaslin plantation (161). This part of the plantation is not described, but it is implicitly there (though no longer in use) when after the death of Ike McCaslin's great-grandfather, Uncle Buck and Uncle Buddy moved all the slaves into the big house their father built for himself. However, the quarters are occupied again by the Negro tenant farmers who work on the plantation in the decades after Emancipation. In "Pantaloon in Black" the cabin Rider rents from Roth Edmonds is "the last one in the lane" (131) - "lane" being a term used elsewhere in the fictions to describe the street that runs through the quarters. And in "The Old People" Sam Fathers lives for years "among the negroes" in "a cabin among the other cabins in the quarters" (161).