How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.[Part].Section.Paragraph)
Quote #4
It was known father to son to son among the Edmondses until it came to Carothers in his turn, how when in the early fifties old Carothers McCaslin's twin sons, Amodeus and Theophilus, first put into operation their scheme for the manumission of their father's slaves, there was made an especial provision (hence a formal acknowledgment, even though only by inference and only from his white half-brothers) for their father's negro son. (2.3.1.29)
By making the characters Amodeus and Theophilus McCaslin free their slaves before Abolition, Faulkner makes the slave-owning McCaslin family somewhat exceptional. The same goes for the fact that the white family members indirectly acknowledge their black relatives by leaving them money. Isaac later comments that it will take a lot more Bucks and Buddys to end the outrage of racial hatred.
Quote #5
[…] Doom pronounced a marriage between the pregnant quadroon and one of the slave men he had just inherited […] and two years later sold the man and woman and the child that was his own son to his white neighbor, Carothers McCaslin. (4.1.9)
This is Sam Father's lineage—son of a Chickasaw chief and a quadroon mother. Did you know that the Chickasaws owned slaves? Don't feel bad—neither did Don Cheadle or Dr. Henry Louis Gates.
Quote #6
[…] the square, galleried, wooden building squatting like a portent above the fields whose laborers it still held in thrall '65 or no […] the very race which for two hundred years had held them in bondage and from which for another hundred years not even a bloody civil war would have set them free. (5.4.2)
Isaac's describing the commissary building, which held the purchase records of the slaves on the McCaslin plantation. Even though slavery as an institution is finished, Isaac must repudiate his inheritance because he knows that it still oppresses the blacks that work there, even after '65 (Abolition). The system that replaced slavery—sharecropping and tenant farming—wasn't all that great a deal for the freed African Americans.