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Baby Suggs, Sethe’s mother-in-law, gathers the Black community in what is called The Clearing, to preach her gospel to the gathering.  It is a gospel drawn from her experience as a slave woman. “Uncalled unrobed, unanointed, she let her great heart beat in their presence”. (102)  Baby Suggs also takes her message to the area Black churches – but the topic of her ‘sermon’ is different. “She did not tell them to clean up their lives or to go and sin ni more. She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek, or its gloybound pure” (103). Discuss why her sermon is different – what is she ‘giving’ to her community? (103-105).