James Brown

American dramatist

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contribution to Black theater

  • King Hedley II
    In Black theater

    …by a Black American was James Brown’s King Shotaway (1823). William Wells Brown’s The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom (1858) was the first Black play published, but the first real success of an African American dramatist was Angelina W. Grimké’s Rachel (1916).

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