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...play tells of Denmark Vesey (Juano Hernandez), a slave who earned his freedom and conspired to set his people free. Secretly gaining thousands of followers, he particularly sought out an influential head slave named George Wilson (Canada Lee), who was torn between his race and a kind master. In a nightmare of conflicting loyalties, George blurted out the plot and betrayed his people...
...South do draw a line. To you Northerners, it may seem closer to the solicitude of the master for his slave. By correction, it is solicitude of the employer for the employee...
...song and story as the epitome of refined torture. He must serve as the butt of every upperclassman's ill-temper, quirks of humor, or plain cussedness, and he must take everything that is thrown at him without a murmur, for he is lower than the lowest galley-slave in the eyes of his more advanced brothers-in-arms. And these latter companions, having been Plebes once themselves, are not apt to let him forget how low this...
...Line Drawn. The Southerner talks about his personal solicitude for the Negro, but to the Northerner it seems much closer to the solicitude of the master for his slave than to the friendliness of neighbor toward neighbor. What most Southerners seem to deny the Negro is human dignity, even in such small ways as refusing to call them "Mr." or "Mrs." "You've got to keep niggers in their place," they...
...Vesey (the part taken over by Juano Hernandez after Mr. Ingram's unfortunate collision with the Mann Act) is the leading character, actually he and his large-scale plans for the overthrow of the Charleston Whites are only a set-up. The man to watch is George Wilson, head slave and loyal friend to Captain Wilson, Charleston's wealthiest planter. Played adequately by John Marriott, George Wilson stands out for his inability to choose between the call of his race and the family which has reared him from birth in slavery. Educated, responsible, George, like Faust, has everything he could...