Kindred characters

Dana (Edana) Franklin

Dana (Edana) Franklin is a brave, sympathetic, and individualistic twenty-six-year-old African-American woman. She is a main character and narrator of a novel by American writer. Dana’s husband is Kevin who works as a writer. They have just obtained their first house and are happy together...

Kevin Franklin

He is a white man married to a black woman in current day 1976 when such bi-racial relationships were still rather extraordinary. He is an absolutely caring husband to Dana and additionally an intelligent writer. Basically, he has some issues believing what happened to Dana,because he loves her...

Rufus Weylin

An owner in Antebellum Maryland and Dana’s forefather. He is a white man with red hair. Unfortunately, Rufus is a result of the century and society he lives in, becoming crueler, more egotistical, and more inhuman through the years and he is more submerged in the patriarchal slave-holding...

Alice Jackson (Greenwood)

Although she was born as a free black woman, Alice turns into a slave of the Weylin estate after the imprisonment of Isaac Jackson, her first husband. Rufus has the manic feelings to Alice since he was young and efforts Alice to be his concubine. After that, Alice gives birth to two children. When...

Sarah

The servant of the Weylin family, who accepts slave part in order to guarantee the safety of her unable to hear, speechless daughter Carrie. So they become friends, and Dana uncovers to respect Sarah’s capacity and persecution. Octavia Butler adopts Sarah to accept the “mammy&rdquo...

Tom Weylin

Tom Weylin is a Rufus’ father. He is an unkind master to his slaves, although Dana notices that Tom is not an absolutely brutal owner. Tom does what he believes is appropriate for a man of his standing over this time cycle, which indicates putting black people “in their place&rdquo...

Margaret Weylin

Margaret is Tom Weylin’s wife and Rufus’s mother. She is an emotional and nervous woman who alleviates her apathy and sense of pointlessness by making the existing of her house servants tragic. Margaret hates Dana because of Dana’s higher education and assurance. Her matter of...

Nigel

Nigel is a slave on the Weylin plantation, Nigel is the individual servant of Rufus and appreciates some of the benefits of living with white people. Nigel does what he wants in spite of the danger of beatings, like his father, Luke. So far Nigel is tied down on the Weylin estate when he meets...

Carrie

She is a slave on the Weylin plantation. Carrie is Sarah’s daughter and the last child Sarah has left (as the others have been sold). Carrie is unable to hear and speak but finds other methods to affirm her skills and force in her own life. Carrie finally marries Nigel and has three sons.

Alice’s mother

Alice’s mother is a free black woman, legitimately making Alice free too. She advises her daughter to be brave but is helpless to defend Alice from the cruel real world for all black people in the slave-holding American South. Alice’s mother also admits to cooperate with Dana inasmuch...