Title: Kindred
First published: 1979
Description: 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.
Subjects: 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 & fantasy
Places: Los Angeles (Calif.), Southern States
People: Edana (Dana), Rufus Weylin, Kevin Franklin
Time periods: 1815, 1976