Analyze the character of Baby Suggs How does she treat Sethe NU In Beloved Toni Morrison presents Baby Suggs as a mother healer and preacher She is Halle s mother and Sethe s mother-in-law Her life shows slavery s pain but also the power of love A mother in pain from loss Baby Suggs had eight children but only Halle was not sold She carries deep grief for her lost family After Halle buys her freedom she moves to Cincinnati She becomes a respected figure in the Black community A Spiritual Healer Baby Suggs preaches in the Clearing She urges former slaves to love themselves and their bodies She tells them This place we are human bodies Our bodies cry laugh and dance freely on the grass Baby Suggs says in Part One Ch In this here place we flesh flesh that weeps laughs flesh that dances on bare feet