An Analytical Study of African-American Women and Their Roles During Slavery, in Toni Morrison's Beloved The issue of slavery has been touched upon by many African-American writers, and this subject has divided human race into whites and blacks, in the way that the positive images are given to white people whereas negative images to blacks. The researcher explores the role African-American women play in slavery in the backdrop of Toni Morrison’s novel-Beloved. In this research work, the researcher has focused on the black female characters’ lives during slavery and after enslavement, as well as how they fought against the imposed false identity in order to identify and define their individual identity. This work has been analyzed from the feminist perspective, especially the second wave of feminism which aims at challenging against all kinds of suppressions in order to end inequality. Based on the textual analysis, the researcher has described what these black female characters suffered and experienced during enslavement and even after it, how they were marginalized from the mainstream society because of the color of their skin and twice marginalized by the patriarchal society because they are women. By applying feminist theory the researcher has investigated the roles played by black female characters in the novel, the researcher has first given a general picture of how Toni Morrison depicts these black female characters in Beloved, and then analyzed how they identify and define their individual identity. To do so the researcher has analyzed the major and minor female characters respectively, to give a broader perspective. In the end, findings are presented as to how female characters, in spite of suffering, pain and atrocities at the hands of the slave owners, still manage to keep up their fierce spirit and succeed in establishing an independent identity not only for themselves, but also for their community.