Sweet Home plantation
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Sweet Home plantation is the fictional Kentucky slave plantation in Toni Morrison’s novel "Beloved," where Sethe and other enslaved characters endure and resist brutal oppression.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sweet Home plantation canonical | 7 |
| Kentucky plantation (early in the novel) | 1 |
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
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fictional plantation ⓘ slave plantation ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Beloved ⓘ |
| associatedCharacterEvent |
Halle’s breakdown
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Paul D’s sale and separation ⓘ Sethe’s escape ⓘ Sethe’s whipping while pregnant ⓘ Sixo’s capture and death ⓘ the theft of Sethe’s breast milk ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
dehumanization
ⓘ
freedom and captivity ⓘ memory ⓘ resistance ⓘ slavery ⓘ trauma ⓘ |
| countryInFiction |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Toni Morrison ⓘ |
| depicts | plantation slavery in the American South ⓘ |
| hasFictionalInhabitant |
Baby Suggs
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Halle Suggs ⓘ Paul A ⓘ Paul D ⓘ Paul F ⓘ Sethe ⓘ Sixo ⓘ |
| hasFictionalOwner |
Mr. Garner
ⓘ
Mrs. Garner ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| laterControlledBy | schoolteacher ⓘ |
| literaryGenreContext |
African-American literature
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historical fiction ⓘ neo-slave narrative ⓘ |
| locatedInFiction | Kentucky ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
contrast to 124 Bluestone Road
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origin of Sethe’s trauma ⓘ site of enslavement ⓘ symbol of slavery’s brutality ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse | Beloved fictional universe ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
illusion of humane slavery under Mr. Garner
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intensified racial violence under schoolteacher ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction |
19th century
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antebellum era ⓘ |
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kentucky plantation (early in the novel)