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Morrison’s Beloved as Chronicle of Slavery?   Stories written in our present time about slavery in the eighteen-hundreds are often accepted as good accounts of history. However, Toni Morrison’s Beloved cannot be used to provide a good chronicle in the history of slavery. While writing about black female slaves and how they were the most oppressed of the most oppressed, Toni Morrison, herself as a female black writer, has a very bias view, as seen by many others. Beloved is written in

Contrasting Treatment of Slaves in Beloved    Slavery has always been a known as a relationship of one person entirely under the domination of another person.  One of the horrific instances of slavery took place in the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries.  During this time Europeans living in the New World enslaved Blacks from Africa.  The White European enslaved many Blacks from Africa, but the degree that each master treated his slaves was different.  This contrasting treatment

Impact of Slavery on the Individual Exposed in Beloved         In her novel, Beloved, Toni Morrison conveys her strong feelings about slavery. One of the major themes throughout the book is the impact that slavery has on the individual.  Morrison utilizes the characters Mr. Garner and Schoolteacher to illustrate how slavery affects everyone in a different way.   Though Morrison portrays Mr. Garner as the more humane master, in actuality he is no different then Schoolteacher,