What was Butler’s motivation in writing kindred?

What was Butler’s motivation in writing kindred? Butler was inspired to write Kindred partly because she had heard so many young black Americans minimizing the horrors of slavery and claiming that if they had been enslaved, they simply wouldn’t have tolerated this or that. Such naïveté and ahistorical braggadocio upset Butler. What was Octavia Butler’s … Continue reading What was Butler’s motivation in writing kindred?