id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2975 Beloved (novel) - Wikipedia .html text/html 8059 914 74 Morrison had come across an account of Garner titled "A Visit to the Slave Mother who Killed Her Child" in an 1856 newspaper article published in the American Baptist, and reproduced in The Black Book; a miscellaneous compilation of black history and culture that Morrison edited in 1974.[1] Baby Suggs, the mother of Sethe's husband Halle, lived with the family but died in her bed soon after the boys fled, eight years before the start of the novel. "And because such a place doesn't exist (that I know of), the book had to."[20] Inspired by her remarks, the Toni Morrison Society began to install benches at significant sites in the history of slavery in America.[21] The New York Times reported that the first 'bench by the road' was dedicated on July 26, 2008, on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, the place of entry for some 40 percent of the enslaved Africans brought to the United States. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2975.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2975.txt