Unnamed Mother of Ned McCaslin

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Unnamed Mother of Ned McCaslin
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Unnamed Mother of Ned McCaslin
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In The Reivers, the unnamed mother of Ned McCaslin is "the natural [i.e. illegitimate] daughter" of Lucius McCaslin and one of his female slaves (31). In Go Down, Moses the slave with whom McCaslin has a daughter is named Eunice, and their daughter is Tomasina; from her descends the Beauchamp side of the McCaslin family. These Beauchamps are a major part of the earlier novel's story, and some of them re-appear in The Reivers. But this novel's brief mention of Ned's lineage does not explain the relationship between the black Beauchamps and the black McCaslins.