Slavery as an Institution and subject

It seems to me that Nobel Prize winning novels, or at least the champions we have observed so far, present interpretations and lenses of important, or shall we even say controversial, themes or events in the real world. This is important to mention because a lot of people would say that content and message or the reception the novel gets or similarly the influence of the external world creates in the book don't indicate good writing. However, we'll put aside all formalist notions for this time. Because what I want to discuss, and get a little head-start on this class discussion (so forgive me if it turns out that I'm way off the mark) is Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" against Toni Morrisson's Beloved. 
It goes without saying, although i'll say it any way, that the two works are both about slavery. Or rather,  to be more specific, Beloved  is about the consequences and effects of slavery. Everything that happens to and surrounds our protagonist is the in the manner racist belief because the story is set in such a time, the Reconstruction Era. There's no doubt that the evils done to slaves before the end of the Civil War were previously unimaginable, however, things did not get better the instant General Lee surrendered at Appomattox. On the contrary, things were almost as bad for the ensuing decades, and blacks were still not equal even a century later. We see these manifestations of evil in Beloved and Django. In many similar ways. Sethe has a tree on her back, and Broomhilda (Hildi) is whipped ferociously in an all too realistic scene in Django. Although not necessarily a commentary on slavery, we see in both works apparitions that hang around or main characters; the spectre of Beloved, and the vision of Hildi. But back to the institution of slavery, another similarity i'd like to focus on is the effect it had on interactions between humans; specifically slaves to wealthy white men-their owners. To contextualize, the saying absolute power corrupts absolutely is clearly evident in both works of art in many ways. The control certainly goes to the owners heads. So much so that in real life slave owners viewed their slaves as property. Not even human. Chattel, as we discussed in class, similar to the word Cattle. They are considered beasts. It's unbelievable but evident in both cases. In Django we see multiple times, at Big Daddy's plantation, when Daddy addresses his slaves on how to treat white people separately from African Americans, and again when Leonardo Di Caprio gives his bone chilling (no pun intended) lecture about the biological differences-how blacks are predisposed to submission and inequality-between whites and blacks. It is evident too in Beloved. And this has a horrible effect in both works, the same kind of effect.
 In addition to this dehumanization, i wanted to accentuate how the same logic of inequality leads to destruction of the family unit. In Django it's represented explicitly. In a flashback we see the origins of how Django loses his love-he tries to marry her behind his masters back and is therefore separated. In Beloved we see a deeper way this happens, due to the intended sense of permanence through these kind of actions. The way identity loss and dehumanization is seemed to be passed on through generations, almost as if it were genetic. Slaves are motherless and fatherless and kinless and denied their mates. We see this expressly in Beloved.
There's no doubt Toni Morrison's anti-minimalist style contributes to the books greatness. The topic at hand is a crucial one, nonetheless. In the cinema, we've seen the issue addressed do well or be criticized, but not in the same way as Django. Slavery as a subject is very touchy no doubt, and i think both works present approaches to the topic differently, but convey similar messages (ultimately)-and that should be high praise for Tarantino-albeit the first half which represents the grim wit and all these important themes, does fade a bit and pays homage to the Spaghetti Western in the Second half, although that is entertaining in its own right as well.