Beloved By Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize winner, has broken the mold several times with novels such as Song of Solomon, Sula, and The Bluest Eye, all of which are well worth reading. Her most well-known work, however, is her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Beloved.

Toni Morrison's novel Beloved was published in 1987. Set after the American Civil War, it tells the story of a family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit. Beloved is based on a true story about Margaret Garner, an enslaved woman from Kentucky who escaped and fled to the free state of Ohio in 1856. She was subject to capture under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850; when U.S. marshals burst into the cabin where Garner and her husband had barricaded themselves, she was attempting to kill her children and had already killed her two-year-old daughter, in order to keep them from being returned to slavery.

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