The stereotypical horror story

Beloved is a fantastic book so far. Not because of the underlying themes or the fact that the dehusking of corn is meant to represent Sethe losing her virginity. But because of the exciting plot. It is told in the perspective of a slave living in a house haunted by her dead baby.  This is not like most horror stories though because she is a slave. Most ghost stories are about a girl getting possessed, a monster that plagues a town or a little boy who sees dead people. This story is vastly different from those. One aspect that is different is that slavery itself is a horror story. Africans were ripped from there homes, and for 400 hundred years they were enslaved, raped, killed and tortured. This is a horror and sounds like something out of saw or some terrifying movie. The other idea that makes this not like most horror stories is that she lives with the ghost and feeds it stories and treats it like its still alive. The characters in traditional ghost stories typically don't live with the spirit and get rid of it. But Beloved ties the ghost in with the household and slavery. This makes the story as a whole so much more interesting.