In response to this play, its lead actor became the namesake of a Cleveland theater troupe based at Karamu House. In a scene in this play, the protagonist searches for the white stone under which he hid canned food, but finds that the ground is covered with indistinguishable white stones. As this play’s final line, a character declares in Cockney slang that the protagonist died “in the ’eighth of style, any’ow.” This play’s protagonist recalls using a shovel to kill a prison guard who whipped him during road work. After the author refused to remove the n-word from this play, actor Charles Sidney Gilpin quit and was replaced with Paul Robeson as the title character, who claims that only a silver bullet can kill him. For 10 points, an ex-Pullman porter rules a Caribbean island in what play by Eugene O’Neill? ■END■
ANSWER: The Emperor Jones (The Karamu House is the oldest Black theater in the United States.)
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