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Horrific Memories In 1873, slavery had been abolished in Cincinnati, Ohio for ten years. This is when Toni Morrison’s famous, well-written novel, Beloved was taken place. Sethe, the mother who murderred her child to protect her baby from a lifetime of slavery, has yet to know the true meaning of freedom. Morrison’s intense metaphorical writing serves as a constant remember of Sethe’s infinitely enslaved life. The chokecherry tree shaped scar on Sethe’s back was a constant reminder of Sethe’s infinitely enslaved life, bound to her guilt, her past, and her horrifically haunting memories. Sethe was just beginning to understand h