[NEohioPAL] Looking for a Fund Raiser or Black History Month Event?

[Mark Little]

Is your organization looking for a fund raiser or Black History Month event.
I have an entertaining and educational Black History Month play to offer to
an organization as a fund raiser.  The play requires no set or formal stage.
See Plot Summary below.  

 

 

Contact Gregory J. Lavelle at (440) 724-4538 or lavellearb at aim.com for more
information. 

 

PLOT SUMMARY

            The play is set in the parlor of a mansion on a cotton
plantation in Alabama in February of 1860, the year before the start of the
Civil War.  James Forsythe, age 25, has just returned from studying in the
North after the sudden death of his mother.  When informed that his father
is dying and that he must take over the plantation, he forces a moral
dilemma.  He has come to believe that slavery is wrong and determines to
free his slaves.  When Benjamin, his chief slave, makes him realize that the
slaves are bound more by their lack of education than their chains, James
determines to bring in a teacher to educate the slaves before they are
freed.  James recruits a teacher, Eve, with whom he falls in love.  

James faces challenges by the other plantation owners who employ various
economic measures and finally resort to threats of violence to attempt to
ensure that James is not successful.  With the common sense, savvy and help
of Benjamin and the surprising wisdom of his "simple" Aunt Emily he is able
to sell his crop and free the slaves.

            The play contains much historically accurate information about
the Underground Railroad and pioneer African-Americans in the fields of law,
religion, medicine and politics before the Civil War.  The play also
provides insights into the economics of slavery and the interrelationships
of plantation owners, slaves and sharecroppers.  The play makes the point
that only through education can a person really be free to pursue his
dreams.  African-American members of a choir can be utilized to  sing
spirituals at the close of the first act and at intermission.  Any number of
African-Americans can participate in the slave house scene and any number of
African-American children can participate in the school scene.  

 

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