Paradise | Historical Background
Paradise is set in a small town in Oklahoma and shows how a community’s past can influence, and perhaps determine, its present and future. As with Morrison’s two previous novels, Beloved and Jazz, Paradise is based on thorough research into a period of African-American history.
There is a rich history of African Americans in the American West, and although this subject was left out of many of the history books used in most classrooms, this is now starting to change. Some people fled the policies of slavery, whereas others simply sought opportunity in...
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