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Beloved, By Toni Morrison

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Beloved by Toni Morrison is a masterpiece compiled of the painful truth of slavery. Most African American literature focuses on the hardship that blacks had to endure throughout slavery and the civil rights movement, and although Morrison does this as well, she also introduces a different perspective. Beloved is fiction, but Sethe is based on a real woman who kills her baby because she is trying to save her from their owners (Griffin). Margaret Garner was a slave in the late 1800s and she had four children: two girls and two boys. She escaped to Cincinnati, Ohio with her children, but was found. Before their white owner could get to them, she cut the neck of the older girl and tried to kill her boys (Griffin). She believed that death was much

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