I just finished reading Kindred, a book about 26-year-old Dana who lives in 1976 but upon her birthday finds herself suddenly transported back to the antebellum South, 1815. Whenever, Rufus, her white ancestor, is in trouble about to die she is suddenly transported back in time. When her own life is in peril she returns home to 1976. While in antebellum South time moves at a normal pace but upon returning home it is as if time has barely moved. For example, when transported back in time days, weeks, and months can go by but when returned back to 1976 only seconds, minutes or days have passed. Dana, is black, and Kevin, her husband, is white. The first couple of times she gets dizzy and is transported back in time she endures firsthand the fear and life of a slave in antebellum South during that time. She has a hard time "playing the part" and still holding onto her modern day identity. The antebellum slaves see Dana as a "white nigger" and not like them. She does make close friends with some on the Weylin plantation.
I would love to go more into the details of this amazing book but then it would give away too much. This book is definitely worth the read.
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