[Music] Toni Morrison's beloved is divided into three parts each of which is further divided into chapters marked by a page break but not given titles or numbers this video series numbers the chapters for ease of reference chapter 1 of part 1 of beloved begins in 1873 at 124 blue stone Road a house on the outskirts of Cincinnati Ohio the house is spiteful full of babies of venom haunted for 18 years by the ghost of a baby furious at having its throat cut the ghost is the oldest daughter of sefa a former slave who lives in the house with her second daughter Denver Sethe 'as mother-in-law baby Suggs died weary and depressed shortly after Sethe his sons ran away Sethi recalls the baby's head stone engraved with a single word beloved and how she exchanged sex with the engraver for that many letters she thinks of sweet home the plantation where she was enslaved then Seth uh finds Paul D sitting on her porch the last of the sweet home men whom she hasn't seen in 18 years when he steps into the red light of 1:24 Seth explains that the ghost is sad not evil Paul D remembers the other sweet home men Paul F Paul a six-o and Seth his husband Haley how one was sold and three broken when schoolteacher took over for mr. Gardner Seth tells Paul D that the schoolteachers nephews took her milk and then whipped her pregnant body leaving her with scars in the shape of a tree Paul D hold sefa and kisses her scars causing the house to shake and a pitch in protest Paul these shouts at the ghost and it leaves Denver longs for the ghosts company