Lucas Beauchamp

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Lucas Beauchamp is a proud, defiant Black farmer and central character in William Faulkner’s fiction, most notably in the novel "Go Down, Moses."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf African American farmer
fictional character
literary character
appearsIn Go Down, Moses
Go Down, Moses
surface form: Go Down, Moses (short story "Go Down, Moses")

Intruder in the Dust
The Fire and the Hearth
Was
appearsInMedium novel
short story
appearsInSeries Yoknapatawpha County stories
associatedWithFamily McCaslin family
centralCharacterIn Go Down, Moses
Intruder in the Dust
characterTrait defiant
independent
proud
self‑reliant
stubborn
conflictsWith white power structure of Yoknapatawpha County
createdBy William Faulkner
createdByCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
createdInYear 1942
firstAppearsIn Go Down, Moses
gender male
hasAncestry mixed Black and white ancestry
hasChild Nat Beauchamp
hasEthnicity African American
Black
hasRelative Isaac McCaslin
surface form: Carothers McCaslin
hasResidenceType cabin on plantation land
hasSpouse Molly Beauchamp
language English (dialogue)
literaryPeriod 20th‑century American literature
livesIn Yoknapatawpha County
narrativeRole moral center in parts of Go Down, Moses
protagonist
nationalityInFiction American
occupation farmer
relatedWorkAuthor William Faulkner
setInPeriod Jim Crow laws
surface form: Jim Crow American South
symbolizes Black resistance
persistence of family history
themeEmbodies Black autonomy
racial injustice in the American South
resistance to white supremacy

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Intruder in the Dust mainCharacter Lucas Beauchamp
Go Down, Moses featuresCharacter Lucas Beauchamp
Jefferson hasNotableCharacter Lucas Beauchamp
McCaslin family hasMember Lucas Beauchamp
McCaslin family exploredThroughCharacter Lucas Beauchamp