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Morrison, Toni. "Beloved." New York, NY: Penguin Books USA Inc., 1987 White, Deborah Gray. "The Lives of Slave Women." American History Volume 1, Pre- Colonial through Reconstruction. Ed. Maddox, Robert James. Thirteenth Edition. Guilford, CT: The Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc., 1995. Http://studyworld.com "the labor of a breeding woman as no object, and that a child raised every two years is of more profit than the crop of the best laboring man." (Jefferson, Thomas. "The American Nation." p. 352) Nothing I have read captures the true devastation to the spirit of the black woman during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries like Toni Morrison's "Beloved." Sethe, the main character, is the iron-willed, iron-eyed survivor of slavery at Sweet Home, where one white youth held her down while another sucked out her breast milk and lashed her with cowhide while her husband helplessly watched.
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