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020 $a1592641172 (hardcover)
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245 00 $aMajor voices :$bthe drama of slavery /$cselected with introductions by Eric Gardner.
260 $aNew Milford, Conn. :$bToby Press,$c2005.
300 $axxxix, 628 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. xxxv-xxxviii).
505 00 $tSlaves in Algiers; or a struggle for freedom -- $tSlaves in Algiers -- $tEarly abolitionist drama -- $tThe kidnapped Clergyman; or, experience the best teacher -- $tThe fugitives -- $tEarly minstrel material -- $tOh, hush! or, the Virginny cupids -- $tUncle Tom's cabin -- $tUncle Tom's cabin -- $tThe Christian slave -- $tThe Christian slave -- $tThe escape; or, a leap for freedom -- $tThe escape; or, a leap for freedom -- $tThe stars and stripes; a melo-drama -- $tThe stars and stripes -- $tThe octoroon; or, life in Louisiana -- $tThe octoroon -- $tLater minstrel material -- $tBones finds himself famous -- $tBrudder Bones as a carpet-bagger -- $tPresidency on the brain -- $tBones on de war path -- $tThe colored senators -- $tPeculiar Sam; or, the underground railroad -- $tPeculiar Sam; or the underground railroad.
520 1 $a"The stage was a vital force in nineteenth-century America - especially in the debates over slavery and race. For the first time, this Toby anthology brings together a selection of plays that shaped the ways in which the drama of slavery was performed in the American theatre. From Susanna Rowson's 1794 Slaves in Algiers to Pauline Hopkins's 1879 Peculiar Sam; or The Underground Railroad; from George Aiken's blatantly opportunistic version of Uncle Tom's Cabin to Harriet Beecher Stowe's own The Christian Slave (her only dramatization of Uncle Tom's Cabin) and Lydia Maria Child's ardently abolitionist The Stars and Stripes, and from former slave William Wells Brown's The Escape to racist, pro-slavery minstrel texts, this anthology allows readers to see how Americans from diverse backgrounds and standpoints staged slavery. In so doing, it also places important but hard-to-find texts like The Fugitives and excerpts from The Kidnapped Clergyman (two of the earliest abolitionist plays) in dialogue with popular drama like Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon." "Dr. Eric Gardner's opening essay and his introductions to the individual plays offer a sense of the historical, biographical, socio-political, and literary contexts surrounding the drama of slavery in America."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aSlavery$vDrama.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010113275
650 0 $aRacism$vDrama.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$vDrama.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100210
650 0 $aTheater$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010116232
700 1 $aGardner, Eric.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005110294
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