beloved

• Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman lives with just her daughter, Denver. They are joined by Paul D and a mysterious girl who adopts the name of Beloved. The story eventually reveals that Beloved is the physical manifestation of the spirit of Sethe's murdered daughter.
• Beloved is a novel inspired by the true story of Margaret Garner, who escaped with her family from slavery in Kentucky to freedom in Ohio in 1856. When US Marshals apprehended the family under the Fugitive Slave Act, Margaret Garner murdered one of her children, a daughter, rather than see her enslaved again.