Featured on PDR in the essay Black America, 1895

During the summer of 1895, in a Brooklyn park, there was a cotton plantation complete with five hundred Black workers reenacting slavery. Dorothy Berry uncovers the bizarre and complex history of _Black America_, a theatrical production which revealed the conflicting possibilities of self-expression in a racist society.

View of W. E. B. Du Bois' “Exhibit of the American Negroes“ at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, 1900

Date

1900


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Public Domain U.S.

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