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Tag: Wild Seed

Does Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed accurately describe life in real plantations as documented by historian Lerone Bennett?

Posted on November 6, 2013 by JL Admin

Octavia Butler sets her novel, Wild Seed in the context of the transatlantic slave trade and US slavery. In the story, Doro gathers “his people” on farms and plantations along the eastern seaboard. In what ways are Doro’s fictional communities similar to the real plantations described by historian Lerone Bennett (chapter 4 of Before the Mayflower…

Response to Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed

Posted on August 28, 2013 by JL Admin

Wild Seed is a novel written by Octavia Butler.  It belongs to the science fiction genre and was published in 1980.  The book belongs to what the author calls the Patternmaster series – a sequence of novels that expand or continue a common storyline. The book is set at a period when the peoples of…

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