American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1706 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*Beloved*
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The idea
The witness records that Morrison found a mid-nineteenth-century newspaper account of a woman who tried to kill her children rather than let them be recaptured into slavery. That woman, Margaret Garner, is the source of Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize in nineteen eighty-seven.
In practice
A newspaper account, turned into a novel.
Where people slip
The historical case is named Margaret Garner.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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