![]() ![]() ![]() Later, her two boys escape from home, and she is left with her youngest daughter, Denver. She succeeds in killing her eldest daughter, while the others survive. Terrified at the thought that her children would have to experience the unbearable suffering of slavery, she tries to kill them-she is willing to do anything to stop them from becoming slaves. After she had escaped with her children and settled in Kentucky, the reader discovers that Sethe’s former owners come after her and capture her and her children. She then lives with her daughter, Denver, in what she comes to understand is a haunted house. She crosses the Ohio River to get into Ohio, where slavery had already been abolished. In 1872, Sethe, the novel’s protagonist, escapes slavery in the state of Kentucky. The novel takes place immediately after the Civil War, between 18, but it also revisits events that took place before these years as well. ![]() Morrison’s descriptions of how brutally the slaves were treated are horrifying and heartbreaking. Perhaps no other literary work revives black slaves’ suffering in the United States as vividly as Beloved, a novel by Tony Morrison, which she published in 1987. ![]()
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