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A short summary of Toni Morrison's Beloved. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Beloved.
- Chapters 27–28
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Beloved by Toni Morrison, published in 1987, is a powerful and haunting novel set in post-Civil War Ohio. The story revolves around Sethe, an escaped enslaved woman, and her haunted past. The ghost of Sethe’s dead daughter, known as Beloved, returns to haunt her, and the novel delves into the impact of slavery on individuals and communities.
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Inspired by the real-life story of a runaway African American enslaved woman named Margaret Garner, who killed her own daughter to prevent her capture and enslavement, Beloved tells the story of Sethe, a runaway enslaved woman who takes her daughter’s life in the same manner.
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Sethe, a former slave, lives in Cincinnati with her daughter, Denver, and her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs. She's been ostracized from her community because, about 15 years before our story begins, she did the unthinkable: she killed one of her own children. There was a good reason for it, of course—if child-killing can ever be justified.
