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Stowe Takes the Stage: Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Christian Slave

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From: Legacy
Date: 19980430
Author:Anonymous

On August 2, 1856, the Illustrated London News reported the performance of a fascinatingly racialized drama: in a lecture-like one-woman show for a largely white audience, a black woman speaker gave a reading of a white woman author's fictional representations of black and white characters:

The great hall of Stafford house was on Monday last the scene of an event which would have caused considerable astonishment to any gentleman of the Southern States of America.... A large audience was gathered together...to listen to a lady of colour giving dramatic readings. The Duchess of Sutherland had ...

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