Alice Raped by Rufus
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What will you react if you get raped? Bringing up a lawsuit to make the rapist have deserved punishment? What about if you were a slave in the 19th century? There is such a scene in novel Kindred by Butler shows that a slave woman (Alice) is raped by her master.
This scene happens after Alice recovers from the injuries she sustains during her capture. 'Alice was stronger now, and Rufus's patience with her was gone.' Rufus can no longer wait and he decides to get Dana involved to have Alice. He convinces Dana to talk to her and to persuade her to go to him. He utilizes Dana's friendship with Alice to threaten her by saying: "You want her to get hurt?"; "You talk to her-take some sense into her-or you're going to watch while Jake Edwards beats some sense into her...