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Essay Archive - Beloved: The Degradation of Slaves
Beloved: The Degradation of Slaves
“Two boys bled in the sawdust and dirt at the feet of a nigger
woman holding a blood-soaked child to her chest with one hand and an
infant by the heels in the other.” This gruesome image is a result of the
many degradations that black slaves face. The humiliation these slaves
suffer is often too much to deal with, forcing them to take action, even
taking the lives of their own children. In her novel, Beloved, Toni
Morrison uses her writing to powerfully portray the physical, spiritual,
and emotional de....
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