Missing Baby Suggs, Sethe takes Beloved and Denver to the clearing in the woods where Baby Suggs used to have spiritual gatherings before she fell into her exhausted state. He felt an urge to wander and did so for years before coming to 124. Paul D wandered north and stayed with a kind woman in Delaware for some time, but he was unable to settle. He and the other slaves eventually escaped together and had their chains cut by a group of Cherokee. Paul D recalls his experience working on a chain gang. Sethe named Denver after the kind white woman. But a white woman named Amy Denver found Sethe, cared for her, and helped her get to the Ohio River, where she gave birth to Denver. Denver loves having Beloved around the house and eagerly tells her about the miracle of her own birth: Sethe escaped from Sweet Home while pregnant with Denver and almost died of hunger and exhaustion while trying to make it to Ohio. She calls herself Beloved and says that she doesn’t know who she is or where she is from.īeloved asks Sethe many questions about her past and somehow seems to know about things only Sethe knew, such as about a pair of earrings Sethe received as a gift from the wife of her former master. But just as Denver is getting used to the new familial arrangement, a strange woman appears at the house.

Paul D awakens painful memories for Sethe and Denver is jealous of the attention and affection that Sethe gives to him. Paul D, a former slave who used to work on the same plantation, called Sweet Home, as Sethe, arrives at 124 and moves in, making a kind of family with Denver and Sethe. And her two sons, Howard and Buglar, ran away from the haunted home just before Baby Suggs’ death. Her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, died eight years previously after languishing for years with exhaustion and seeming overwhelming sadness. Sethe lives at 124 with her daughter Denver. A former slave named Sethe has lived in the house, with its ghost, for 18 years.

On the edge of Cincinnati, in 1873 just after the end of the Civil War, there is a house numbered 124 that is haunted by the presence of a dead child.

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