Why is the book called Kindred?

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novel is titled this because the , Dana, learns about her family historyin
other words, who her kin werethroughout the novel.

One day in 1976, Dana is
inexplicably and suddenly pulled into the past. She is an African American woman and lands on a
plantation in the antebellum South. Of course, because of the historical context, the people
assume she is a slave, so she is forced to work on the plantation. Dana travels back and forth
between the 1970s and the antebellum period and, on her journeys, comes to a greater, fuller
understanding of her ancestry. Namely, she learns that plantation owner Rufus is a...