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-- Twelve years a slave[2014]., [Publisher not identified] Call No: DVD Edition: [English/Spanish/Fr Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth, Solomon Northup was sold from plantation to plantation in Louisiana, toiling under cruel masters for twelve years before meeting Samuel Bass, a Canadian who finally put him in touch with his family, and helped start the process to regain his freedom.
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c1986., Plume Call No: DRAMA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Troy Maxson, a strong, hard man who has learned how to be Black and proud in the 1950s, finds the changing spirit of the 1960s hard to deal with.
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[1988]., New American Library Call No: DRAMA NF WIL Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Herald Loomis arrives at an African-American Pittsburgh boardinghouse, after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man--in body.
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c2009., Bloom's Literary Criticism Call No: 812 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents only Series Title: Bloom's guides
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c1985., Plume Call No: DRAMA NF WIL Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the script for a two-act play set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 where African-American band members and blues singer Ma Rainey reveal the conflicted feelings they have about their status in the white man's world.
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1995., The Modern Library Call No: DRAMA Edition: 1995 Modern Library Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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1994., Vintage Books Call No: DRAMA Edition: 1st Vintage Books e Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.
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1994., Vintage Books Call No: 812 Han Edition: 1st Vintage Books e Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.
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[1996]., Plume Call No: DRAMA NF WIL Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Series Title: Plume drama.Summary Note: Chapter six in a continuing theatrical saga that explores the African-American experience in the twentieth century, following a small group of friends who have gathered together in Pittsburgh's Hill district in 1948 to mourn the death of local blues guitarist Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton.
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c1991., University of Pittsburgh Press Call No: DRAMA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Contains three plays about twentieth century African-American lives.