Why did Octavia E Butler write kindred?

Why did Octavia E Butler write 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. Kindred erodes the naïve idea that the brutalities of the past … Continue reading Why did Octavia E Butler write kindred?