By definition, slavery is a societal institution based on the ownership, dominance, and exploitation of one human by being another human's property. Committed from the depths of the darkest parts of the human sole, numerous accounts of slavery have been documented in literature and adapted onto screen. The reality of slavery is best perceived from the perspective of the slave and as John Little, a fugitive slave who had escaped to Canada, says, "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is - 'tis he who has endured" (Yetmen, 1).

In the midst of the nineteenth century, slaves were used as domestic servants

As a young black slave, Sethe suffers a great deal of pain and anguish. Her housing conditions are poor and she has to endure long hours of laborious work. Not only is she cruelly beaten and whipped by her slave master, she is also sexually exploited by two white males while she was pregnant with her first child. Driven by her desperation to be free, Sethe, alone and pregnant, makes the journey towards freedom. She is anxious and is willing to do anything to escape slavery. Haunted by the death of one daughter, the departure of two sons, and the rage of the daughter who remains, Sethe is the symbol for the lingering impact of slavery. In her mind, slavery and its effects are worse than the threat of death. However, she is an oak of a woman. Firm, stoic, and straight-ahead, Sethe lives with the aftermath of the horrific act. Determined to "never run from another thing on earth," she knows she can't afford remorse, nostalgia, or torment of the memory. As Sethe depicts the individual horrors of slavery, "Beloved" is ultimately an American survivor's tale which depicts the collective experience of slavery defined by the identity of the African American community in the United States.

and performed laborious work on plantations in Southern United States. Most of the slaves consisted of Africans who were seized from their native land and then sold into lives of servitude into a foreign land. They often received the fundamentals of life: shelter, food, and clothing. However, even under the best conditions, slavery was brutal and dehumanizing. Slaves lived in terrible housing conditions and were forced to work long hours. The children of slave women were likely to continue to live as slaves as they were often sold to other slave owners. Slaves were not only severely beaten, whipped, or tortured, but slave women also experienced sexual exploitations and were threatened or raped by their masters. Essentially, slavery was about sub

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