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angeleyes16
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Where are Dana's family records in Octavia E. Butler's novel "Kindred"?

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Posted by angeleyes16 on Tuesday June 10, 2008 at 5:18 PM and tagged with characters, dana, family records, kindred.

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  1. dymatsuoka

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    Dana's family records are in "a large Bible in an ornately carved, wooden chest".  The records were begun by Hagar Weylin sometime in the mid-1800s.  Hagar was the daughter of Rufus Weylin, the son of a white plantation owner, and Alice Greenwood, a free black woman.  Dana reveals that her uncle still has the Bible, and that it contains the only information about Alice's life that still remains in the present day.

    In the Bible, Hagar carefully recorded the date of her marriage to a man named Oliver Blake, and listed the names of "her seven children, their marriages, some grandchildren".  After awhile, the record was taken up and continued by someone else (Chapter 1).

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    Posted by dymatsuoka on Friday June 13, 2008 at 11:25 AM