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Baby Suggs
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Search complete. 11 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Baby Suggs".
Sep 28, 2026
Doing is Becoming - Rev. Dr. Donté Hilliard
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20:39Dante HilliardGUEST
That transformation is a thing that we must check off our list before we are able to engage in anything that would create a world where all can thrive.
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20:56Dante HilliardGUEST
However, In this beautiful story, Beloved, written by ancestor Toni Morrison, and in this clip from the film adaptation, we are introduced to this mystic minister, this worship leader by the name of Baby Suggs Holy.
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21:18Dante HilliardGUEST
Baby Suggs was a former enslaved woman who became a traveling preacher and a community leader.
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21:31Dante HilliardGUEST
And in this scene, we see her gather the people, my ancestors, in the sacred hush arbors, in the clearing, in the midst of a wilderness.
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21:48Dante HilliardGUEST
And she first we see her in a meditative contemplative state and then she begins to give instructions to do men dance children laugh women weep And if you have read this story, you know that it goes on to tell us that that circle went on so long that men were weeping and children were dancing and women were crying.
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22:30Dante HilliardGUEST
And before it was all over, everything was mixed up.
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22:36Dante HilliardGUEST
Everybody was weeping and laughing and crying.
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22:42Dante HilliardGUEST
And then Baby Suggs Holy, this itinerant minister whose only authorization was not the ecclesial ordination of a body, but her status of trust and her way of doing and being in that community that gave her the gravitas of this mystic minister.
Slavery, Ghosts, and Beloved: Crash Course Literature 214
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6:08speaker_5ADVERTISER
mom?
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6:08John GreenHOST
Sethe's main mentor for mothering is her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, but her life has also been profoundly disrupted by slavery's breaking of family.
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6:16John GreenHOST
In all of Baby's life, as well as Seth's own, men and women were moved around like checkers.
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6:21John GreenHOST
Anybody Baby Suggs knew, let alone loved, who hadn't run off or been hanged, got rented out, loaned out, bought up, brought back, stored up, mortgaged, won, stolen, or seized.
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6:33John GreenHOST
So Baby's eight children had six fathers.
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6:35John GreenHOST
What she called the nastiness of life was the shock she received upon learning that nobody stopped playing checkers just because the pieces included her children.
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9:34John GreenHOST
They consume each other and each other's stories, and as Beloved grows larger, Sethe grows ever smaller.
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9:40John GreenHOST
Even Denver is eventually locked out from Beloved and Sethe's mutual obsession.
Elder: Embodiment - Arisika Razak
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28:14Arisika RazakGUEST
But what I do know is that the call to beauty, the call to love, the call to honor the body.
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28:26Arisika RazakGUEST
The archetype given life is baby Suggs in Beloved.
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28:30Arisika RazakGUEST
There's something called the Sermon in the Clearing that you can find quoted.
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28:36Arisika RazakGUEST
You can look it up.
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28:38Arisika RazakGUEST
They'll show the clip from the movie.
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28:40Arisika RazakGUEST
And baby Suggs, unlettered, untutored, the people to them.
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28:46Arisika RazakGUEST
She has lived a life of enslavement.
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28:50Arisika RazakGUEST
She has suffered.