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Course Hero. "Kindred Study Guide." Course Hero. 28 July 2016. Web. 2 Oct. 2023. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Kindred/>.
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Course Hero Literature Instructor Russell Jaffe explains the main characters in Octavia Butler's novel Kindred.
| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Dana | Dana is an African American woman writer in her 20s who finds she can time travel to Maryland in the antebellum period. Read More |
| Kevin | Kevin, Dana's white husband, is a writer who time travels with Dana. Read More |
| Rufus | Rufus is Dana's ancestor, a white slave owner. Dana repeatedly saves his life. Read More |
| Alice | Alice is Dana's ancestor and the object of Rufus's desire. She becomes his slave and concubine and bears two of his children. Read More |
| Carrie | The one child of Sarah's who is not sold, Carrie is a mute slave who marries and has children with Nigel. |
| Dana's aunt | Dana's aunt accepts her niece's marriage to Kevin because it means the couple's children will be light-skinned. |
| Isaac | Isaac is Alice's husband and a runaway slave who is caught and punished. |
| Luke | Luke is the Weylins' slave and Nigel's father. He tries to assert some control over his life and is later sold. |
| Margaret Weylin | Margaret Weylin is Rufus's mother. She fusses over him, becomes mentally ill after the death of her twins, and later becomes addicted to laudanum. |
| Nigel | A childhood friend to Rufus, Nigel is a slave who learns to read and marries Carrie. |
| Sarah | Sarah, the Weylins' slave, cooks for the plantation and is Carrie's mother. She is haunted by the sale of her other children. |
| Tom Weylin | Tom Weylin is Rufus's father and a plantation and slave owner. |
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