“Beloved is the forgotten spirit of the past that must be loved even if it is unlovable and elusive”
Toni Morrison’s Beloved depicts a story of the hurtful and violent events that happened during the historically famous Atlantic Slave Trade. As a brief overview, the Atlantic Slave Trade was basically an era characterized by mass buying of African natives for slave trade and their transportation to the New World, mostly in the Central and Western part of Europe, which existed from the 16th to 19th century. Being sold to slavery and maltreated by oppressive masters was extremely traumatic for the Africans—extreme to the point that they resort to killing their sons and daughters, and even themselves just to ...
