Kindred
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Dana, a Black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor.
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. Yet each time Dana's sojourns become longer and more dangerous, until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun.
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Fiction, Slaves, African American women, Slaveholders, Slavery, Time travel, Literature, open_syllabus_project, Historical, Science Fiction, African American, Contemporary Women, Fiction, science fiction, general, Slaves, fiction, African americans, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Southern states, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, african american & black, general, Fourth dimension, Popular reading, Enslaved persons, fiction, American literature, Teen fiction, Fiction subjects, Science fiction & fantasyPeople
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-284).
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Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.
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