BELOVED Historical Context

Historical Context
"It was not a story to pass on."

Slavery

Ex-Slave Narratives
Excerpts from Slave Narratives
Slave Life
Abolition Webquest
Slave Routes
Slavery in North America
John Brown's Last Speech
American Lynching
Infamous Lynchings
The Murder of James Byrd, Jr.
Fugitive Slave act and the Compromise of 1850
Margaret Garner
Thomas Jefferson on Slavery
Slavery and the Formation of Character
Amistad Trials
Without Sanctuary
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Passion for Justice
From Fugitive Slave to Free Man: The Autobiographies of William Wells Brown
The Slave Trade
African Ideas About the Afterlife

Post Slavery

Historical Events Affecting Characters in BELOVED
Nineteenth Century Newspapers
Atlanta 1906: A Race Riot
Jim Crow Inside the South

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