![]() ![]() Paul D, who was also a slave at Sweet Home, finds Sethe in Cincinnati, and with their reunion, the memories they tried to repress of their lives during slavery come forward. After her escape, she joined her mother-in-law and her children, who were living in Ohio, where slavery was illegal. Sethe was a slave who escaped from a Kentucky plantation, called Sweet Home, while pregnant with Denver. Today, we will learn about Toni Morrison’s Beloved, which demonstrates the effects of slavery on the people subjected to this heinous system of oppression through her hauntingly-told narrative.īeloved opens in 1873, just eight years after slavery was abolished in the United States, with the story of Sethe and her 18-year-old daughter, Denver, who live in a house everyone believes is haunted by Sethe’s dead infant daughter. ![]() Welcome to the last lesson in Masterpieces of World Literature. Episode #10 of the course Masterpieces of world literature and why they matter by Alisa Miller ![]()
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