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“She needed to go to Maryland, to see what the geography was like, find out what a working slave plantation was like,” Natalie explained. “How far away were the towns? If you were trying to run away, where would you go?”
Octavia has said before she was inspired to write Kindred after overhearing young Black people minimizing the impact of slavery and asserting what they would or would not have done had they been enslaved themselves.
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