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Baby Suggs is the mother of Halle, which makes her Sethe’s mother-in-law. She was born into slavery, and she in turn gave birth to nine children. All of her children except for Halle were taken from her and sold to other slaveowners, and in the novel’s present time all of them are presumed dead.
Baby Suggs is Halle ’s mother, Sethe ’s mother-in-law, and Denver ’s grandmother. Halle buys her freedom before the events of the novel and, after establishing a life at 124 in Cincinnati, she becomes something of a preacher or holy person in the surrounding community, holding gatherings in the Clearing in the forest.
In the clearing where Baby Suggs once preached, men, women, and children danced, sang, and celebrated the crippled old woman's healing love. Herself defeated by a weak heart, a month after Sethe arrived in Cincinnati, Baby Suggs took to her bed, caressed bright colors, and, blaming "those white things," willed herself to die.
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She misses Baby Suggs and wishes that she were around to help her deal with this new information. She decides to go to the Clearing. Before 124 became haunted, Baby Suggs used to be a quasi-religious figure in the community and hold gatherings at a clearing in the woods.
Toni Morrison. Home. Literature Notes. Beloved. Baby Suggs. Character Analysis Baby Suggs. Baby Suggs acts as a mother figure and stabilizing force for Sethe and Denver. A self-proclaimed preacher, Baby Suggs draws upon the beauty of nature to make the community of ex-slaves recognize the beauty in themselves.
Active Themes. Sethe thinks of Sweet Home and working in the kitchen there. She thinks of how slavery treats men and women like checkers, moving them around, selling them off, and breaking up families. Baby Suggs, for example, was separated from all of her eight children except for Halle .
