Historical Events affecting Characters in "Beloved"

The following is a list of historical information related to the period covered in Toni Morrison's Beloved. This list offers the historical/political events that occurred during a portion of the period when Beloved takes place. The ramifications of these events were the stage upon which Beloved was played out.

• Missouri Compromise of 1820
• Compromise 0f 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Margaret Garner, a runaway slave, killed her child in Cincinnati, 1856
• Slavery polarizes the American States
• Lincoln Attacks Slavery
• Dred Scott Case, 1857

• Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• U.S. Civil War Center

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