t of the process in defining one's sense of self.
             Baby Suggs was misused and abused for the majority of her middle-aged slave life. She was treated like an animal or a machine, a tool for reproducing more slaves. All of her children, from different fathers, were taken from her. She was alone in a cruel world of white masters and could not even keep her own children. Anything or anyone she had ever loved was taken from her.
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