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Possessing Harriett : a play
- Title
- Possessing Harriett : a play / Kyle Bass.
- Author
- Bass, Kyle
- Publication
- Fabius, New York : Standing Stone Books, 2022.
- Berkeley, California : Small Press Distribution
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- 107 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- Tells the story of Harriet Powell, a young enslaved woman of mixed race, who, with the aid of the Underground Railraod (in the person of Tom Leonard, a free Black man), slips out of the hotel in Syracuse, New York, takes shelter in Gerrit Smith's attic, and talks with Elizabeth Cady (a cousin of Smith's) about women's rights, while they wait for night and the next stage of the escape to Canada.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- African American women > Drama
- Underground Railroad > Drama
- Racially mixed people > United States > Drama
- Enslaved persons > United States > Drama
- African Americans > History > 1863-1877 > Drama
- African Americans
- Manners and customs
- Slaves
- Underground Railroad
- Racially mixed people
- African American women
- Syracuse (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 19th century > Drama
- New York (State) > Syracuse
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Drama.
- History.
- Call Number
- Sc D 23-973
- ISBN
- 9798886270273
- OCLC
- 1337926760
- Author
- Bass, Kyle, author.
- Title
- Possessing Harriett : a play / Kyle Bass.
- Publisher
- Fabius, New York : Standing Stone Books, 2022.
- Distributor
- Berkeley, California : Small Press Distribution
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 23-973