Unnamed Enslaved Mother of Sam Fathers

Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2016-06-23 13:09
Text: 
Go Down, Moses
Character Key: 
Unnamed Enslaved Grandmother|Mother of Sam Fathers
Display Name: 
Unnamed Enslaved Mother of Sam Fathers
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Enslaved Mother of Sam Fathers
Race: 
MixedBlackWhite
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Enslaved Black
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Dead
Family: 
Issetibbeha|Ikkemotubbe
Family (new): 
IkkemotubbesInGDM
First Mentioned: 
Big Bottom in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Other Texts: 
"A Justice"
"The Old People"
Biography: 

The mother of Sam Fathers is identified in this novel only as a "quadroon slave woman" who is pregnant with Sam when Ikkemotubbe brings her back to Yoknapatawpha from New Orleans (157). In other fictions she is identified simply as a 'Negro,' but in this one narrative she is referred to as a "quadroon" - that is, someone with three white and one black grandparents (157).

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

digyok:node/character/10283