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Baby Suggs' Birth
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Baby Suggs Arrives at the Plantation
Event: "When she hurt her hip in Carolnia she was a real bargain...for Mr. Garner, who took them both to Kentucky to a farm he called Sweet Home." (Pg. 164)
Reaction: "...exempted from the field work that broke her hip and the exhaustion that drugged her mind...she listined to the white woman humming at her work; watched her face light up when Mr. Garner came in and thought, it's better here, but I'm not." (Pg. 165) -
Halle Earns Baby Sugg's Freedom by Working Longer Hours
Event: "When Mr. Garner agreed to the arrangements with Halle, and when Halle looked like it meant more to him that she go free than anything else in the world, she let herself be taken 'cross the river." (Pg. 166)
Reaction: "And then she knew. friends and neighbors were angry at her because she had overstepped, given too much, offended them by excess." (Pg. 163) -
Baby Suggs Explains the Origins of Her Name
Event: " 'When I took you out of Carolina, Whitlow called you Jenny and Jenny Whitlow is what his bill said. Didn't he call you Jenny?' " (Pg. 167)
Reaction: " 'No, sir. If he did I didn't hear it...Suggs is my name, sir. From my husband. He didn't call me Jenny.' " (Pg. 167) -
Baby Suggs Gets 124
Event: " 'Oh, just listen to this, Jenny,' said Mr. Garner, 'These two angels got a house for you. Place they own out a ways.' " (Pg. 171)
Reaction: "Now she stood in the garden smelling disapproval, feeling a dark and coming thing, and seeing high-topped shoes that she didn't like the look of at all. At all." (Pg. 173) -
Baby Suggs Becomes Baby Suggs, Holy
Event: "She had nothing left to make a living with but her heart--which she put to work at once...she became an unchurched preacher." (Pg. 102)
Reaction: "She did not tell them to clean up their lives or to go and sin no more. She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glorybound pure." (Pg. 103) -
Her Past Begins to Tire Her Out
Event: "The heart that pumped out love, the mouth that spoke the Word, didn't count...she could not approve or condemn Sethe's rough choice. One or the other might have saved her, but beaten up by the claims of both, she went to bed. The whitefolks had tired her out at last." (Pg. 212)
Reaction: "Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in leaving life or living it...she used the little energy left her for pondering color." (Pg. 4)