A thesis submutted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree "licence en langue et littérature Anglaise"

summary :
This work was an attempt to contribute in the literary research of the black oppression as well as the survival strategies which could bring them to the new modes of living.
The first chapter helped us to know hardships characters used in beloved endured in the hands of their masters. In the united states of America, we discovered that Blacks were brought on the Black owners' plantations where they worked like machines with no rest. They were whipped, chained, forced to work, raped which oppressed them physically.
The second chapter titled " Psychological traumas" researched on the mental troubles caused by their oppressive way of living. Blacks in the united states of america knew several kinds of harsh treatments. These troubled them and traumatized them. in this chapter, we found that physical oppression was the origin of psychological traumas.
This third chapter entitled "survival strategies" examined to what extent Blacks tried to get out of the hands of the oppressors in order to survive. it was seen that they began applying the violence in striking and fighting as the way to express their anger. shortly, this last chapter had to bring out mainly the strategies used by Blacks to get out of the hands of oppressors and we found that escaping was the anly on strategy led blacks to freedom.