Links

• History of African Americans in Kansas
• The Kansas African American History Trail
• Lesson Plans from PBS on African Americans in the American West

• Ii.:  a fall evening
• I ii : Two days later, early afternoon
• I iii : the same day; evening
• I iv: the next morning
• I v: late that night

• II i: early the next morning
• II ii: the next Sunday, early morning
• II iii: Sunday afternoon
• II iv: Sunday evening
• II v: Monday mornign
• II vi: Seven months later; April 1899

Characters

• Sophie Washington, a black woman, born into slavery, 36
• Miss Leah, a black woman, born into slavery, 73
• Fannie Dove, a black woman, 32
• Wil Parrish, a black man, born into slavery, 40
• Minnie Dove Charles, a black woman, 21
• Frank Charles, a very light-skinned black man, born into slavery, 36

  Themes

• race and heritage of racism--
• racism within the race (absorbed the ideals and values of the whites)
• roles of men and women
• family -- what makes a family (affiliate families)
• patriarchy/ domestic violence

Clemson Performance