In the reading Kindred, by Octavia Butler, she depicts vivid events that had taken place in earlier times. These patrols are viewed from two totally different standpoints on both ends of the spectrum: right and wrong. One group called the “Patrollers” are made up mostly of non-slave owners, who were hired by the slave owners: “Patrol. Groups of young whites who ostensibly maintained order among the slave”(37). These men were mostly drunken vigilantes, who in their eyes thought they were keeping things in order. They would go around harassing and terrorizing slaves in hopes of finding one in the wrongdoing: “Patrollers made sure were where they were supposed to be at night, and they punished those who weren’t’”(45). These actions in a sense
