Chapter 19

• Stamp Paid feels responsible for Paul D's move out and checks on Sefate and Denver.
• Seth ax finds ice skates and takes the girls to a frozen creek to skate.
• After the laughter dies away, Seth ax cries an Ernest back at 124.
• Beloved hums a song that Seth ax had made up and sung to her own children when they were babies.
• Stamp Paid recalls a conversation with Baby Suggs where she had stopped going to the clearing and Stamp Paid tried to persuade her to go back but without any success.
• Stamp Paid finally understood that Baby Suggs simply tired out and couldn't decide between excusing or condemning Seth his choice to kill her children.
• Seth decides to live peacefully but her mind is still filled with memories of the baby's funeral and how all she heard were the words "Dearly Beloved" and how for 10 minutes she had one word "Beloved" itched on her baby's tombstone.
• Sethe recalls how trusting she used to be of white people but now she believes they're all bad luck.
• Sethe remembers how the school teacher measured her with a string and how she overheard him telling his students to put her human characteristics on the left and her animal ones on the right.
• Stamp Paid believes the noise is coming from 124, mumblings of angry dead slaves.
• Stamp Paid contemplates that white people believe that under every dark-skinned person is a jungle but he believes that in a way they're right even if it's the cruelty of whites that planted that jungle.
• Stamp Paid finally knocks on the door of 124 and the women in 124 are left alone.
• Sethe wants nothing more to do with anyone she just wants a life with her daughter's inside 124.