SLAVERY AS FORCED IMMIGRATION IN TONI MORRISON’S BELOVED
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Résumé
Immigrated by force in the States, African Americans have suffered from slavery. In Toni
Morrison’s Beloved, Sethe and Sweet Home’s slaves have also paid a heavy price for freedom. Black
Africans were torn from their land and taken to foreign lands. With Postmodernism as literary
theory, we will reveal the atrocities, the sufferings of slavery on black Africans and the methods
of resilience of these oppressed of that forced immigration. Disoriented and tortured, they
struggled to get freedom. Toni Morrison, an African American woman writer, is one of the leading
figures of black American literature, advocating for the freedom of black people in the United
States of America.
Key words: Immigrants- Resilience-Slavery-African American-Freedom.