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SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Donald Morrison...
...Morrison's critical portrayal of aschoolteacher in the novel may actually be anattack on scholars who tend to ignore the emotionsof slavery, Jones concluded...
...speech entitled "History and Rememory: An Historian Looks At Toni Morrison's Beloved," Professor Jacqueline Jones said it is normally difficult for historians to speculate about the lives of slave women because primary sources written by whites or escaped slaves are unemotional and factual...
...said, "Morrison gives us a compelling portrait of one woman and what this grief and what this inner struggle meant...
...Wellesley professor said the book correctspopular misconceptions about slavery. She saidmany believe slaves had no personalities and were"automatons" for their masters. But, as Morrison'sbook shows, slaves occassionally would refuse tofollow directions and would be violently punishedfor it, Jones said...