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Chapter 1 Pt1

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  • Mother-in-law dies
  • S traded sex for good gravestone
  • Brothers runaway
  • PD appears
  • Meet the other ‚sweet home’ men
  • PD kisses S scars
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Chapter 2 Pt1

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  • S and PD have sex
  • Sixo walked for 30 miles to see his girlfriend
  • S and H got married without sweet home permission
  • PD eats corn after this
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Chapter 3 Pt1

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  • D returns home
  • Servant helps out S when she is running away
  • PD destroyed relationship with ghost
  • PD chain gang
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Chapter 4 Pt1

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  • D wants PD gone
  • P tells S about loving her children too much
  • Carnival with S, PD and D - all holding hands at the end
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Chapter 5 Pt1

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  • Fully dressed woman walks out of water
  • Sits on stump found by S, D and PD
  • S immediately urinates
  • B drinks a lot of water - then sleeps for 4 days
  • PD says she’s not sick
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Chapter 6 Pt1

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  • B is drawn to S
  • S told B that her mother was lynched but she couldn’t identify her mark
  • S feeds and nourishes B with her stories
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Chapter 7 Pt1

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  • PD is confused as to why B is liked so much by S and D
  • PD tells S that H saw what happened to her when the boys took her milk and whipped her - he was broken
  • PD had a bit in his mouth so he keeps story in tobacco tin
  • S and PD able to share stories to each other there is openness in their relationship
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Chapter 8 Pt1

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  • B and D dancing
  • S tells B how Amy D found S and helped her deliver D
  • D now knows that B is her dead sister
  • Amy D is white double of S
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Chapter 9 Pt1

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  • S takes B and D to clearing and remembers 123 with BS
  • Stamppaid took B over the Ohio river
  • S feels BS on her neck who begins to strangle her
  • B kisses S on neck
  • S tries to get closer to PD - B gets jealous
  • D was once deaf
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Chapter 10 Pt1

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  • Flashback to PD chaingang
  • Find sick cherokees
  • When he arrived at 124 he could never reopen the memories
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Chapter 11 Pt1

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  • PD unable to sleep as he was kicked out of 124
  • B asks him to touch her
  • He has sex with B who drives him away from S
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Chapter 12 Pt1

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  • D wrestles with the love for B
  • S no longer thinks B is her daughter but D still does
  • D doesn’t want to be abandoned - hunger, appetite and need
  • B disappears and then reappears
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Chapter 13 Pt1

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  • PD thinks of sweet home men - they were property not men
  • PD wants S to have his child
  • S is frightened to have another child
  • S breaks PD out of B control
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Chapter 14 Pt1

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  • B tells D to make PD to go away
  • B pulls out tooth and fears shes falling apart
  • She then cries to be held by D
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Chapter 15 Pt1

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  • BS doesn’t want to celebrate without H
  • SP picks blackberries
  • Community angry with BS
  • We learn how BS got to 124
  • H worked for her freedom
  • Friends of garners let BS rent out for extra work
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Chapter 16 Pt1

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  • 4 men arrive at 124 - children all injured
  • Nothing here to claim
  • 4 horsemen = famine, war, pestilence and death
  • End of S’s 28 days of freedom
  • Doesn’t to see her children in slavery
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Chapter 17 Pt1

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  • PD looking at newspaper - SP starts telling PD about story of S but stops
  • PD tells SP its not S
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Chapter 18 Pt1

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  • PD confronts S - she tells him about her crime
  • ‘your love is too thick’’thin love ain’t love at all’
  • S told him why she did it
  • ‘2 feet not 4’
  • He leaves her
  • Love ruined by slavery
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Chapter 19 Pt2

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  • SP hears loud noise
  • S tries to make the children happy - she again realises B is her baby
  • S recalls B’s funeral
  • SP believes white people think black people are animals
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Chapter 20 Pt2

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  • ‘ beloved, she mine’
  • S thinks of stolen milk
  • S’s plan was to kill her children and then herself
  • B came back to S so she is now peaceful
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Chapter 21 Pt2

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  • B was D’s secret company before PD arrived
  • PD is for S and B is for D
  • D knows B won’t hurt her
  • ‘She’s mine beloved’
  • D longs for safe and loving family
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Chapter 22 Pt2

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  • ‘I am beloved, and she is mine’
  • No punctuation
  • She doesn’t want to lose her
  • B describes crouching during the middle passage - she’s the manifestation of millions of murdered slaves
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Chapter 23 Pt2

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  • B continues - starts with same quote
  • They have simple conversations
  • All 3 voices are emerged - emphasises their connections
  • Rivalry for possession
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Chapter 24 Pt2

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  • Back to PD thinking of sweet home
  • Not much difference between the slave owners
  • Sixo was burned whilst 30 mile woman ran away
  • That day was the last time PD saw S at sweethome
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Chapter 25 Pt2

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  • SP finds PD drinking
  • Masters son slept with SP’s wife
  • He changed his name and helped slaves escape (debt paid)
  • SP tells PD that he was there when S killed her children
  • SP understands S’s sacrifice as he almost killed his wife
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Chapter 26 Pt3

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  • 124 was quiet
  • S and D are weak, B is plump - wants everything best for B
  • D wants a job instead receives charity
  • Women of Cincinnati go to 124
  • S runs at Mr Bodwin and attacks him
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Chapter 27 Pt3

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  • PD and SP return to 124
  • B supposedly exploded
  • Mr Bodwin wants to sell 124 and doesn’t press charges
  • PD realises how S puts his pieces together
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Chapter 28 Pt3

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  • Community forget about B
  • Soon B is entirely gone
  • Story of B is not a story to pass on