The object of the study of this paper, Beloved, is loosely based on the 1850s historical event of Margaret Garner, a female black slave, who escaped from her Kentucky slave owner and took refuge in Cincinnati in Ohio with her husband and her children.

• 本文研究的对象《宠儿》取材于一个真实的历史事件:十九世纪五十年代,一个名叫玛格丽特·加纳的女黑奴与其丈夫一道,携子女从肯塔基奴隶主庄园逃到俄亥俄州的辛辛那提。