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The darker face of the earth
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The darker face of the earth

Rita Dove
1994
DramaMothers and sonsSlavesWomen plantation ownersAfrican AmericansPlantation lifeHistoryAfro-AmericansAmerican drama (dramatic works by one author)Drama (dramatic works by one author)Poetry (poetic works by one author)

A play in verse about a white woman who has a black child by a slave in pre-Civil War South Carolina. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner and is the present U. S. poet laureate. This verse play, based on the story of Oedipus & placed within the context of slavery, is set on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina.

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