Two Contrasting Views of Slavery in Literature: "Beloved" and "American Negro Slavery"

In this article, I will study the authors' research on American slavery themes: Ulrich B. Phillips American Negro Slavery (1918) and Toni Morrison Beloved (1987). Some wrote as historians defending Southerner and the slaves of the south and used contemporary racial theory to prove that the system is good for African Americans. Another writing is an African - American woman who wants to write a woman in history and add voice to her in the process. The purpose of comparing the two texts is to make people aware that historical knowledge is being built rather than given, and that the authors' personal data is affecting their work.

Slavery is fundamentally important in defining the difference between the south nature and the north. Until around 1950, the popular slavery scholarship was based on Ulrich Phillips 'American Black Slavery' (1918). Phillips depicts slavery as an economically unsuccessful system in which the paternalist owners civilize these low but satisfying African Americans. Later historians challenged Phillips' claim by showing a permanent confrontation to slaves and owners. Today, the old view of slavery as a paternalistic or benign institution has lost confidence.

In this article, I will study the authors' research on American slavery themes: Ulrich B. Phillips American Negro Slavery (1918) and Toni Morrison Beloved (1987). Some wrote as historians defending Southerner and the slaves of the south and used contemporary racial theory to prove that the system is good for African Americans. Another writing is an African-American woman who wants to write a woman in history, and in the process she wants to add women's voice in the past ... Toni Morrison's 1987 novel "The Beloved" It is a ghost story. At the same time, this novel is about past ghosts that have tormented the whole country since the days of slavery, although there are literally ghosts that attract the characters in this book. According to the real story, a few years after the termination of slavery, Beloved talks about former slaves named Seth who settled in Ohio with three children. However, when her house began to suffer from the ghosts of young women,