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A five page paper looking at Toni Morrison's novel in terms of its depiction of slavery from an economic standpoint. The paper points out that slaves suffered not only physical maltreatment but dehumanization because the emphasis was on their economic productivity, not their development as people.
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particular noted that it would have been economically impossible to produce the goods they did without slavery. While they agreed that black people, both adults and children, were bought and
sold like property -- and in fact they were considered property -- white landowners also asserted that keeping slaves was necessary to their economic wellbeing because they could not have
farmed such huge plantations without unpaid labor. Of course the slaves had to be purchased in the first place and then fed, clothed, and sheltered, but it was obvious that
the amount of work that the slaves produced more than paid for the expenses involved in maintaining them. In fact, as Eric Foner and John A. Garraty note, "From the
middle of the seventeenth century to the start of the Civil War, slavery and commercial agriculture were intimately associated. During the colonial period, slaves grew much of the tobacco in
Virginia and the Carolinas, rice in the low country of South Carolina and Georgia, and sugar on the Caribbean islands -- all crops that found their way into world markets"
(Foner and Garraty, PG). The profit potential derived from not having to pay ones workers, and having to provide them with only a meager standard of living, was tremendous. But,
as we can see from works such as Toni Morrisons Beloved, slavery was a moral and psychological evil whose effects were felt -- and are still being felt -- long
after the "peculiar institution" was terminated throughout the United States at the end of the Civil War. Regardless of whether the reader believes in the literal existence of Beloved or
regards her as a manifestation of Sethes traumatic past, there is no question that her appearance years after slavery was ended shows the long-ranging psychological effects of the damage done
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