Question
At the end of a one-act play titled for and set in one of these places, a preacher in a business suit babbles as the audience is invited to ritualistically dance to jazz music. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these vehicles. Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon is based on her interviews with the last survivor of these vessels, which transported the ancestors of most African Americans.
ANSWER: slave ships [accept Slave Ship: A Historical Pageant; prompt on ships]
[10m] This playwright of Slave Ship wrote a play in which Lula stabs Clay on a subway car after a confrontation about racial confrontation and Black identity, titled Dutchman.
ANSWER: Amiri Baraka [or LeRoi Jones or Everett Leroy Jones]
[10h] This character sends Citizen to the City of Bones aboard a slave ship made from her Bill of Sale in a play titled for that ship. This “washer of souls” lives at 1839 Wylie Avenue, a reference to the date of the Amistad mutiny.
ANSWER: Aunt Ester [or Ester Tyler] (The play is The Gem of the Ocean.)
<AS, American Literature>
Summary
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