comfort the ghost although he is the only acquaintenance they know in this area , and the only person who remained from Sweet Home who shared with Sethe the cruelty of slavery .
             " She is mine , .....she came back to me of her own free will .........Paul D ran her
             off so she has no choice but to come back to me in flesh"
             Sethe as a black slave, could not emancipate herself from the dark memories that kept on chasing her even after this long years of freedom. The most terrible of them all is the murder of her child Beloved, this horrible crime that pursued her and destructed her life. Being a slave to her memories Sethe could not overcome this sense of guilt towards her baby although she sees that did this terrible crime to save the baby from a lifetime dehumanised life she has once lived .
             " How if I hadn't killed her she would have died and that is something I could not bear to happen to her."
             Sethe was greatly hurt with what she faced when she was at Sweet Home, she was taken away from her mother - she does not even know who her mother is " Nun had to nurse whitebabies and me too because Ma,am was in the rice. The little whitebabies got it first and I got what was left.Or none.There was no nursing milk to call my own.", even when she decided to marry Halle , she could not wear a white dress as the rest of the
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