The darker face of the earth
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About the book
A play in verse about a white woman who has a black child by a slave in pre-Civil War South Carolina. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner and is the present U. S. poet laureate. This verse play, based on the story of Oedipus & placed within the context of slavery, is set on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina.
Subjects
- african americans
- afro-americans
- american drama (dramatic works by one author)
- drama
- drama (dramatic works by one author)
- history
- mothers and sons
- plantation life
- poetry (poetic works by one author)
- slaves
- women plantation owners