Product Description: MAJOR VOICES: THE DRAMA OF SLAVERY. For the first time, this Toby anthology brings together a selection of plays that shaped the ways in which slavery was performed in the nineteenth-century American theatre. From SLAVES IN ALGIERS (by Susanna Rowson, 1794) to PECULIAR SAM; OR, THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (by Pauline Hopkins, 1879); from the blatantly opportunistic adaptation of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (1852) by George Aiken to the rare 1855 play THE CHRISTIAN SLAVE (the only dramatization of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN written by Harriet Beecher Stowe) and the ardently abolitionist THE STARS AND STRIPES (by Lydia Maria Child, 1858); and from a play written by a former slave, THE ESCAPE (by William Wells Brown, 1858), to racist, pro-slavery minstrel texts, this anthology allows readers to see how Americans from diverse backgrounds and standpoints staged slavery...read more

Product Description: In June 1867, the San Francisco Elevator-one of the nation's premier black weekly newspapers during Reconstruction-began publishing articles by a Californian calling herself "Ann J. Trask" and later "Semper Fidelis." Her name was Jennie Carter (1830-1881), and the Elevator would print her essays, columns, and poems for seven years...read more

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Product Description: Gabriel Willis and his loyal legion are unlikely heroes who hold the key to safeguarding the gates of heaven and defeating the armies of the damned. With their personal worlds now destroyed, Gabriel, Othia, and Samantha have just entered the temple with one way forward—a path none of them chose...read more