ASPECTS OF SLAVERY IN TONI MORRISON'S "BELOVED (1987)"

Abstract

Slavery has been one of the most ugliest tragedies in human history, a tragedy where Africans were obliged to lose one of the most important things that humans seek in life ; freedom. This tragedy ended exactly in 1870, according to Distribution of Slaves in US History which declared (a survey in May 13,2010) that by 1870, all blacks of the US at that time were freed (4,880,009 individuals). Even though it ended, it left a big amount of negative effects that are still affecting the world till nowadays, which causes several racial conflicts in most of the world's countries. Even though most of the alive African Americans of our time did not suffer from slavery, but they are truly connected to it. Most of them got this connection from African stories and folktales, which was passed from one generation to another. Toni Morrison ; An African American novelist, professor and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote a great novel named "Beloved", which is both ; A sad story and a wonderful way to take the reader in a journey at the time of slavery, to take a sip from the poison that was, obligatorily, fed to them.