The protagonist, Sethe, is enslaved and chooses to kill her child rather than have her subjected to rape and further violence inherent to that system. “Beloved,” published in 1987, is a brilliant novel about the horrors of racial slavery and the morally compromised choices that brutal system elicited. McAuliffe denounced the move, offering copies of the book at a rally on Tuesday. The Virginia gubernatorial race between Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin’s reached a new low when the GOP candidate released an ad featuring a conservative activist, Laura Murphy, who campaigned against the teaching of Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Beloved,” on the grounds the story’s grueling depiction of racial violence gave her son – then a high school senior – nightmares. Peniel Joseph Kelvin Ma/Tufts University/Kelvin Ma/Tufts University
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