https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q Maruca, Sadie & Tahsin en-us 2021-03-23 14:19:47 UTC 2021-03-26 02:54:22 UTC hello@padlet.com sadiejimenez1 https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1343131758 Baby Suggs is the only enslaved woman at Sweet Home for a while and has 9 children, including Halle (Sethe's husband). "Be thankful, why don’t you? I had eight.
Every one of them gone away from me. Four taken, four chased, and all, I expect, worrying somebody’s house into evil.” (12)]]> 2021-03-23 14:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1343131758 sadiejimenez1 https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1348345317 28 days after Sethe's arrival, Baby Suggs begins to feel depressed, staying in bed and occasionally asking for colours to brighten her dull surroundings;"Her past had been like her present—
intolerable—and since she knew death was anything but forgetfulness, she
used the little energy left her for pondering color." (10)]]> 2021-03-24 14:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1348345317 sadiejimenez1 https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1353914860 After living at Sweet Home, Baby Suggs is aged and not as capable of performing activities so her son, Halle makes a deal with the owner of Sweet Home and worked 5 years worth of weekends for her to be freed from her life of enslavement.
"girl—the one who took Baby Suggs’ place after Halle bought her
with five years of Sundays." (17)]]> 2021-03-25 16:49:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1353914860 sadiejimenez1 https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1354985177 Baby Suggs is given the job of cobbler sometime after arriving at 124;"the corner where Baby
Suggs mended shoes," (43)]]> 2021-03-25 20:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1354985177 sadiejimenez1 https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1355021979 When Sethe arrives at 124 after spending a month escaping Sweet Home, Baby Suggs takes her home and nurtures her back to health over the span of weeks;"After each bathing, Baby covered
her with a quilt and put another pan on in the kitchen." (92)]]> 2021-03-25 21:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1355021979 sadiejimenez1 https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1355040642 Sometime after arriving at 124 and establishing a life there, she becomes a spiritual leader to the other formerly enslaved black people and gives them a space to express their deepest emotions; "When warm weather came, Baby Suggs, holy, followed by every black man, woman and child who could make it through, took her great heart to the Clearing" (87)]]> 2021-03-25 21:13:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1355040642 sadiejimenez1 https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1355071711 Baby Suggs truly loves her family, especially her grandchildren and Sethe, so she anxiously waits for her arrival at 124;"When the children arrived and no Sethe, she was afraid and grateful." (130)]]> 2021-03-25 21:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1355071711 sadiejimenez1 https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1355321060 Stamp Paid, the man that had helped Sethe and her children escape Sweet Home, visits 124 to see Sethe and her children that he helped: "It was Stamp Paid who started it. Twenty days after Sethe got to 124 he
came by and looked at the baby he had tied up in his nephew’s jacket,"(130)]]> 2021-03-25 23:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1355321060 sadiejimenez1 https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1355332072 Baby Suggs lived her entire life enslaved, and before arriving at Sweet Home she is 'discouted' due to hurting her hip in Carolina; "When she hurt her hip in Carolina she was a real bargain (costing less than
Halle, who was ten then) for Mr. Garner," (133)]]> 2021-03-25 23:46:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1355332072 sadiejimenez1 https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1355342401 In exchange for living with the Bodwins at 124, she did the laundry, cobbled and some seam stressing; "but it was the best and the only thing they could do. In return for
laundry, some seamstress work, a little canning and so on (oh shoes, too), they would permit her to stay there." (139)]]> 2021-03-25 23:52:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1355342401 https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1355750746 She began doing this work as a release and a change from her life as a slave.  She "decided that, because slave life had 'busted her legs, back, head, eyes, hands, kidneys, womb, and tongue,' she had nothing left to make a living with but her heart—which she put to work at once." (86)]]> 2021-03-26 02:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1355750746 https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1355819846 Baby Suggs loved and appreciated her children, but even so was able to bury the grief of their losses for most of her life. “A man ain’t nothing but a man,” said Baby Suggs. “But a son? Well now,
that’s somebody.” (28)]]> 2021-03-26 02:52:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sadiejimenez1/58jjq6cui40erf8q/wish/1355819846