Kindred (novel)
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Kindred is a novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler that incorporates time travel and is modeled on slave narratives. Widely popular, it has frequently been chosen as a text by community-wide read
First edition cover of Kindred
Concubinage
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Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between two people in which the couple does not want to, or cannot, enter into a full marriage. Concubinage and marriage are often regarded as s
Kindred (novel)
…outside Easton. There she meets some of her ancestors, including Alice, a free Black woman, and Rufus, a white planter who forces Alice into slavery and concubinage. As Dana stays for longer periods in the past, she becomes enmeshed in the plantation community. Dana makes hard choices to survive slavery and ensure…
Ushabti of a concubine, naked with jewelry underlying the breasts, pubis shaved with visible vulva, and wearing a heavy wig with erotic implications (painted wood, 2050–1710 BC)
Mosaic (3rd century AD) depicting Glykera (left), the pallake of Polemon (center), and a household slave named Sosias (right) in a scene from the play Perikeiromene by Menander, first performed around 313 BC
The concubina Fufia Chila is included in this family gravestone set up by Marcus Vennius Rufus to commemorate himself, his father and mother, and his late wife (CIL IX 2265)
16th-century painting of Ban Jieyu (c. 48 BC – c. 2 BC), poet and concubine to Emperor Cheng of the Han dynasty.