![]() ![]() “I come from the theater and I’ve done a lot of work on slavery in some ways, it’s been the material of my life,” he continues. “I always say, again and again,” Jacobs-Jenkins says, “nothing has done more harm to our understanding of that time period than film and television.” ![]() Butler’s science fiction has often been interpreted as an allegory for slavery, despite the fact that she candidly told an interviewer in 1996 that, “The only places I am writing about slavery is where I actually say so.” In Kindred, though, Butler is clearly saying so: Dana finds herself on a Maryland plantation, which is inextricably linked to her family history.īoth the novel and the TV show veer away from Hollywood’s overwrought tropes about slavery and more toward a depiction of how the evils of the system pervaded daily life-not limited to the auction block or the whipping post. ![]()
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