Our Curator of Education, Trenda Byrd, recommends Kindred By Octavia Butler. The book is the first-person account of a young African American woman writer, Dana, who finds herself shuttled between her California home in 1976 and a pre-Civil War Maryland plantation. There she meets her ancestors, a spoiled, self-destructive white slave owner and the proud black freewoman he has forced into slavery and concubinage. As Danas stays in the past become longer, she becomes intimately entangled with the plantation community, making hard compromises to survive slavery and to ensure her existence in her own time.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:01:43 +0000
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