Please interpret the following quote from Paul D in Beloved."For a used-to-be slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous if was her...

The novel Beloved is a complicated
story about an escaped slave and the trauma she suffered over how her children were
treated and what she ended up having to do to them to avoid a return to
slavery.

In the historical context of the story, we have to
remember that slaves were legally property, whether they had escaped or not.  Slave
marriages had no legal status, and all the children produced by such marriages were
owned as property as well.  This meant that your spouse or your kids could, and probably
would, be sold away from you at some point.

So it was
common to see much less of a bond develop between slave mothers and children in those
days, because heartbreak, trauma and in the case of Beloved,
insanity could easily result.