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Leslie Pickney Hill's "Toussaint L'Ouverture."
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Ako, Edward O. – Phylon, 1987
In his 1928 play, the Harlem Renaissance writer Leslie Pickney Hill portrays Toussaint L'Ouverture, the leader of the Haitian slave rebellion, with historical accuracy. Hill's presentation was aimed at rehabilitating black pride, "A worthy literature reared upon authentic records of achievement is the present spiritual need of the race."…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black History, Black Literature, Colonialism
Doesticks' Assault on Slavery: Style and Technique in "The Great Auction Sale, at Savannah, Georgia."
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Piacentino, Edward J. – Phylon, 1987
Analyzes "The Great Auction Sale of Slaves, at Savannah, Georgia" (1859), a popular work by Mortimer Neal Thompson, an American humorist better known by his pseudonym, Q.K. Philander Doesticks, P.B. The book is one of the most readable, credibly authentic accounts of the abuses of slavery. (BJV)
Descriptors: Activism, Authors, Black Attitudes, Black History