Dissecting the Prominence of Motherhood in the slave-owning world with reference to Toni Morrison’s Beloved and God Help the Child

Mother-daughter relationship is always special because the daughters always carry a special bond with their mothers. A woman becomes completed by attaining the phase of motherhood. But in the African-American context, the motherhood is always feared if she bears a girl child. Slavery has created a deep scar into the psyche of the mothers and makes their life tremble. In the Indian context, the mothers always worry about the harmonious life of their daughters; they aim to give good education and suitable bridegroom but the African-American mothers, it is entirely different. Frightened about the evil effects of slavery and its scar, they bother more to raise their daughters amidst the racial slur. In Beloved Sethe murders her daughter Beloved in order to protect her from the white men and in God Help the Child, Bride’s mother Sweetness pretends that she hates her daughter. Slavery created the worst situation for the mothers to behave so and eventually they feels guilt about their act.