Title: The darker face of the earth
First published: 1994
Description: A play in verse about a white woman who has a black child by a slave in pre-Civil War South Carolina. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner and is the present U. S. poet laureate. This verse play, based on the story of Oedipus & placed within the context of slavery, is set on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina.
Subjects: Drama, Mothers and sons, Slaves, Women plantation owners, African Americans, Plantation life, History, Afro-Americans, American drama (dramatic works by one author), Drama (dramatic works by one author), Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Places: South Carolina
Time periods: 1775-1865