Woods and Fields at McCaslin-Edmonds Plantation (Location Key)

The woods and fields near the McCaslin-Edmonds plantation appear in both Rider's and Ike's stories in the Go Down, Moses texts. In "Pantaloon in Black" this is the terrain across which Rider moves so restlessly after Mannie's funeral, through the night and early morning. His dog overtakes "him within the first half mile. There was a moon then, their two shadows flitting broken and intermittent among the trees or slanted long and intact across the slope of pasture or old abandoned fields upon the hills" (135-36). And in "Old People," Sam Fathers teaches Isaac McCaslin to hunt by shooting rabbits in these same woods, which are close to a creek where their dogs hunt raccoons, and turkeys roost in the trees.