Ready Reference Treatise: Beloved

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Cover of the book Ready Reference Treatise: Beloved by Raja Sharma, Raja Sharma
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Author: Raja Sharma ISBN: 9781301621873
Publisher: Raja Sharma Publication: January 28, 2013
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Raja Sharma
ISBN: 9781301621873
Publisher: Raja Sharma
Publication: January 28, 2013
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

“Beloved” by the Nobel Prize winning American writer Toni Morrison was first published in 1987.

The story is set during and after the Civil War in America, between 1861 and 1865. An African-American slave, Margaret Garner, is the source of inspiration for the story.

Margaret Garner had run away from slavery for a brief period during 1856. She had run away from Kentucky and gone to Ohio, a free state.

A group of temporary police force came there to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. According to that Act, the slave owners had the right to follow their runaway slaves across state borders.

Margaret Garner did not want her daughter to become a slave so she killed her two year old daughter.

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“Beloved” by the Nobel Prize winning American writer Toni Morrison was first published in 1987.

The story is set during and after the Civil War in America, between 1861 and 1865. An African-American slave, Margaret Garner, is the source of inspiration for the story.

Margaret Garner had run away from slavery for a brief period during 1856. She had run away from Kentucky and gone to Ohio, a free state.

A group of temporary police force came there to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. According to that Act, the slave owners had the right to follow their runaway slaves across state borders.

Margaret Garner did not want her daughter to become a slave so she killed her two year old daughter.

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