In the prologue to an adaptation of this play, the author BJJ is taunted by the Playwright while attempting to stage this play. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this play that focuses on the residents of Terrebonne. A 2014 play by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins reworks this Dion Boucicault (“boo-see-COH”) melodrama.
ANSWER: The Octoroon
[10m] In its day, The Octoroon was surpassed in popularity only by plays depicting this character, known as his namesake “shows.” Anti-[this character] literature includes William Gilmore Simms’s The Sword and the Distaff.
ANSWER: Uncle Tom
[10e] Zoe, the title character of Jacobs-Jenkins’s play, is one of these people. These people’s narratives inspired much of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
ANSWER: slaves [or enslaved people; accept slave narratives]
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