LeRoi Jones
Another off-Broadway shocker from LeRoi Jones, aka Amiri Baraka, The Slave takes place in a time of great conflagration, when Blacks have risen up to bomb and burn the civilization of White America. Into a professor's house comes Walker Vessles, an African American man with a pistol. Walker is the ex-husband of Grace, the professor's wife, and the father of the two biracial daughters now living in this white household. Though he intends to kill Grace and her husband, reclaiming his daughters, Walker fails as the entire family is killed when their house collapses.
Published in tandem with Dutchman.
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LeRoi Jones, aka Amiri Baraka (1934-2014), was a poet, writer, political activist and teacher. He was born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Howard University in 1953 and published his first major book of poetry, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, in 196 ...
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