A good number of criticisms focus on similarities between Sethe of Morrison`s Beloved and Margaret Garner of the real story who had to kill her own daughter in order to protect her from the cruelty of slavery. Based on the mother-daughter relationship of female slaves, many of them analyze Beloved`s return and what the return of the repressed memory means to ex-slaves. However, this essay instead focuses on Paul D and what his life as a male slave represents. In particular, this essay tries to interpret the meanings of the rusted tobacco tin he secretly hides in the place of his heart. Paul D`s rusted tobacco tin reveals the repressed chapter of early American history in which America earned independence from Britain with France`s help, which America bought by exporting tobacco. Of course, tobacco was cultivated in plantation based on slavery. In this way, Paul D`s individual memories contained in the tobacco tin are inevitably connected to the black people`s collective memories as slaves. The fact that this rusted tin opens by the sexual intercourse between Paul D and Beloved insinuates the possibility that Paul D`s painful memories as a male slave also have much to do with Middle Passage, the character Beloved insists she returns from. Paul D later saves Sethe from the prison-like 124, the house of dead memories, and helps her join the black community. When we read Beloved from Paul D`s perspective, we can trace the process in which individual memories are united with collective ones and claim to revise official history written from the perspective of whites.