Black Heroes: Seven Plays

by Errol Hill

(Applause Books). Collected here for the first time are plays many of which have been unavailable for decades which pronounce a black American struggle for freedom, advancement and equality from the days of slavery to the era of civil rights. Includes: Emperor of Haiti by Langston Hughes; Nat Turner by Randolph Edmonds; In Splendid Error by William Branch; Harriet Tubman by May Miller; Paul Robeson by Phillip Hayes Dean; I, Marcus Garvey by Edgar White; and Roads of the Mountain Top by Roy Milner.

436 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2000

About the author

Errol Gaston Hill (August 5, 1921–September 16, 2003) was a Trinidadian-born playwright and theater historian. He was the first tenured African American faculty member at Dartmouth College in the United States, joining their drama department in 1968.
Hill's works include the play Man Better Man (1964) and the non-fiction books The Trinidad Carnival (1972), The Theater of Black Americans (1980), and the Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre (1994)

Reviews

[raj]

Read Edgar White's play, <>, which is quite good, creating the character of Garvey in really human ways, even poetic.

The collection also has an interesting play by Langston Hughes, on the Haitian Revolution (specifically on Dessalines), called <>,