Beloved is a novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War (18611865) it is inspired by the story of an African-American slave Margaret Garner who temporarily escaped slavery during 1856 in Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio a free state. A posse arrived to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across state borders. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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