... the United States, American Slavery consisted of African Americans who were brought into America for property and violently forced to work in large or small plantations. In her novel "Kindred", Octavia E Butler, writes about a modern black woman who's snatched unexpectedly from her home in 1979 Pasadena, California and transported back in time to the Antebellum South. Dana, the modern ... are considered property because they were black and labeled as subhuman. To enforce the status of blacks being property, white owners would use inhumane violence as a form of punishment. In Kindred, Da...

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