How would one feel and behave if every aspect of one's life was controlled and never regulated. The physical and emotional consequences of slavery have a lasting effect on the judgment of people, who go to great lengths to avoid slavery. In the novel Beloved, Toni Morrison uses the character's adversity to expose the true struggles of slavery and the impact it has on oneself and one's relationships. Live vicariously through the life of Sethe, a former slave who murdered one of her children to free herself from the terrible life of slavery. Margaret Garner: a mother, murderer, slave and inspiration for Morrison's novel. Margaret, like Sethe, adored her children immensely and had no intention of seeing them suffer as she did. The subsequent trial garnered national notoriety and was the focus of attention of many in the anti-slavery movement. To fully understand what drove her to commit such an immoral crime, Toni Morrison strives to write a novel based on the problems that Margaret faced the same way Sethe did. It is essential to examine the circumstances of the slavery that she and many others were forced to serve. In this novel, the main character takes the harshest route to avoid slavery when she attempts to kill her children. The antagonist, Sethe, does not want to let her children end up in such a miserable lifestyle as she lived. Maintaining that she preferred to see them far from misery on Earth and rather dead in Heaven. Slavery is an extremely cruel and wicked way of life, and as many have seen, living without freedom is not living. Slavery dishonored African Americans as individuals and treated them as well as animals: without respect and proper care. For example, Sethe rec...... middle of article ...... on people and their development in USWorks Cited1. May, Samuel J. and Nellie Y. McKay. “Margaret Garner and seven others.” Toni Beloved: a casebook. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 25-36. Print.2. Morrison, Tony. "An interview with Toni Morrison. And a commentary on her work." Interview with María Frías, Wayne Pond and Trudier Harris. JSTOR. AEDEAN, November 1994. Web. February 4, 2014. .3. Schapiro, Barbara A., "The Bonds of Love and the Limits of the Self in Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'" (1992). Faculty Publications. Article 205. http://digitalcommons.ric.edu/facultypublications/2054. Williams, Heather Andrea. “How Slavery Affected African American Families.” The History of Liberty, TeacherServe©. National Center for the Humanities. April 1, 2014. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1609-1865/essays/aafamilies.htm