Slave to Pain Sethe, now free from slavery has become a slave again, but this time instead of being a slave to a white master she is a, slave to her own pain. The sources of her pain are numerous, including the stealing of her milk, the murdering of her child, Beloved, attempting to kill the rest of her children, and two of her children leaving her because of it. When Sethe's murdered child, Beloved, returns, the pain she feels from these sources intensifies and begins to adversely effect her life. Beloved's intentions put simply seem to be to control, Sethe to make her a slave, but Sethe, in the end, is able to break free of the slavery and pain by letting the pain go.