Negro History in Thirteen Plays
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Title
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Negro History in Thirteen Plays
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This edition
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"Negro History in Thirteen Plays" . Ed. Willis Richardson and May Miller. Washington: Associated, 1935. vii+333 pp.
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Table of contents
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Antonio Maceo ; Attucks, the martyr ; The elder Dumas ; Near Calvary ; In Menelek's court / Willis Richardson -- Frederick Douglass ; William and Ellen Craft / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Nat Turner / Randolph Edmonds -- Genifrede / Helen Webb Harris -- Christophe's daughters ; Harriet Tubman ; Samory ; Sojourner Truth / May Miller.
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Reviews and notices of anthology
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• Woodson, Carter. Review of "Negro History in Thirteen Plays." "Journal of Negro History" 21 (1936): 73-76. JSTOR.
Woodson observes that this collection of plays presents the lives of characters who embody "the development and progress of the people of African blood" (73). Two of the plays are set in Africa (giving the lives of Samory, "the hero of Soudan," and of Menelik, "the great Emperor of Abyssinia"--but leaving unaddressed such figures as "Moshesh, Chaka, El-Hadj Omar, Behanzin and Primpeh") (74); one is set in Europe (giving the life of the elder Dumas--but leaving unaddressed the lives "of such [figures] as Anton Wilhelm Amo, the professor of philosophy, at Wittenberg; of Juan Latino, the poet and Latin scholar of Spain; of Angelo Soliman, the distinguished soldier in the employ of the Holy Roman Emperor, and of many others of distinction") (74); three of the plays are set in the Caribbean (giving us the Haitian figures of Christophe's Daughters and Genifrede, as well as "Antonio Maceo, the Cuban martyr, who next to Gomez was largely responsible for the independence of that island"--but leaving unaddressed figures like Henriques Dias, a hero of the Brazilian struggle for independence from the Dutch in the seventeenth century) (74-75). The remaining seven plays feature figures from the United States: they "deal with Crispus Attucks, Nat Turner, William and Ellen Craft, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass": "Around these lives these playwrights have interwoven most of the salient facts of the history of the Negro in the United States," though in some places "imagination" has supplemented "actual facts" (75).
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JSTOR
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Cited in
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Rowell 1972: 63] [Hatch 1991: 191-92] [Kinnamon 1997: 474]
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Item Number
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A0036
