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."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lucas Beauchamp canonical | 6 |
Statements (46)
| 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 ⓘ |
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.