Tomasina

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2019-01-17 13:39
Character Key Number: 
132
Display Name: 
Tomasina
Sort Name: 
Tomasina
Parent Character Key: 
Eunice 2
Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In Go Down, Moses, Tomey, born Tomasina, is listed in the McCaslin ledgers as the daughter of Thucydus and Eunice, slaves on the McCaslin plantation. Biologically, however, she was fathered by Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin, the white man who owned her and who was also her father. Like her mother, Tomey was a slave on the McCaslin plantation, and also like her mother, she was impregnated by Lucius McCaslin. She dies giving birth to their child.

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