In Beloved, Toni Morrison talks about family life, mother-daughter relationships and the psychological impact of slavery. This particular book was based on a small slave family in Cincinnati, Ohio after the American Civil War (bridge). Seven people lived in the small house at 124 Bluestone Road (Morrison 2). The 3 is missing from the address because the third child of the four children has died. The seven people living in the house were: Sethe, Halle, Denver, one of Sethe and Halle's daughters, Baby Suggs, Beloved, who was killed by her mother when she was only two years old, Howard and Buglar, who were the sons of Sethe and Halle (Morrison 2). Sethe, the mother of Beloved, Denver, Howard, and Buglar, attempted to kill her children when she discovered that they might return to slavery again when she saw the teacher heading towards them. , but only succeeds with the death of a single child (Deck). Even though she tried to kill her children, Sethe loved them all; he contributed a lot with the time he dedicated to them. Sethe never knew her mother very well, she practically grew up alone. Surprising, but one of Sethe's best characteristics was her motherly role, she had no problem with it (Cain). Sethe's last child, Denver, was born on the Ohio River with the help of a white woman who stopped along the way and who was on her way to Boston for velvet. In 1850, Halle and Sethe gave birth to their first son Howard. Sethe and Halle's second son, Buglar, was born the year after his brother's birth, in 1851. The couple's third child and first daughter, Beloved, was born in November 1854 (Crow). Then, in 1855, Sethe's fourth child, Denver, was born with the help of a white woman who goes... middle of paper... Soon, Andrew Hock. “Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Space, Architecture, Trauma.” symbol 19.1-2 (2011): 231+. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 14, 2014.Spargo, R. Clifton. “Trauma and the Specters of eEnslavement in Morrison’s Beloved.” Mosaic [Winnipeg] 35.1 (2002): 113+. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 14, 2014.Terzieva-Artemis, Rossitsa. "Toni Morrison's Beloved: Female Mystics." The AnaChronisT (2004): 125+. Literary resources from Gale. Network. 14 January 2014.Toutonghi, Pauls Harijs. "Toni Morrison's Beloved." Classics by American writers. Ed. Jay Parini. vol. 1. New York: Sons of Charles Scribner, 2003. 19-33. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 14, 2014. Vickroy, Laurie. “The Force Without / The Force Within: Motherly Love and Regenerative Spaces in Sula and Beloved.” Obsidian II 8.2 (1993): 28+. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 14. 2014.