Shallow Brown: Thessalonia and the Free Sailor will receive a reading at the 1st Langston Hughes Playwrights Showcase. This event will be held at the Langston Hughes House at 20 E. 127th St. (bet. 5th & Madison), Harlem, NY–the recently refurbished, actual home of Langston Hughes while he lived in Harlem! Get directions.
Quakers helped. Mostly, Black people Freed Ourselves through the "Slave Grapevine." Watch the story of African Queens kidnapped, enslaved and resisting. Plus, U.S. Colored Troops and the Slave Grapevine in the Black freedom struggle in the U.S.
Read a brief history of slavery and African rebellions in America freeing ourselves.