The Roots of African American drama : an anthology of early plays, 1858-1938 / edited by Leo Hamalian and James V. Hatch ; foreword by George C. Wolfe.
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
c1991.
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| Series: | African American life series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Two hundred years of black and white drama / James V. Hatch
- The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom (1858) / William Wells Brown
- Peculiar Sam, or The Underground Railroad (1879) / Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
- Aunt Betsy's Thanksgiving (c.1914) / Katherine D. Chapman Tillman
- Aftermath (1919) / Mary Burrill
- Black Vaudeville (c.1920) / Butterbeans and Susie (Jodie and Susie Edwards)
- The Chip Woman's Fortune (1923) / Willis Richardson
- The First One (1927) / Zora Neale Hurston
- Help Wanted (1929) / Joseph S. Mitchell
- Tom-Tom (1932) / Shirley Graham
- The Sharecropper (1932) / George A. Towns
- Nails and Thorns (1933) / May Miller
- The Shining Town (1937) / Owen Vincent Dodson
- On Strivers Row (1938) / Abram Hill.