New Works Writers Series presents Gibbeted
Gibbeted is a tale adapted from true trial transcripts of enslaved Africans Mark and Phills, who in 1755 went to trial for murdering their slave owner in Charlestown, Mass. The common myth is that enslaved Africans did not resist their condition in the Americas. Slave resistance is not often explored in the study of African American history and culture, and propels this African American tale. Gibbeted, a little known story of resistance, reminds audiences that there is still much to learn about this chapter in American history.
. . .will take the audience on a journey reliving the incidents of the trial and these enslaved Africans in the eighteenth century. New Works' Gibbeted, is a dramatized reading
Gibbeted is a tale adapted from true trial transcripts of enslaved Africans Mark and Phills, who in 1755 went to trial for murdering their slave owner in Charlestown, Mass. The common myth is that enslaved Africans did not resist their condition in the Americas. Slave resistance is not often explored in the study of African American history and culture, and propels this African American tale. Gibbeted, a little known story of resistance, reminds audiences that there is still much to learn about this chapter in American history.
. . .will take the audience on a journey reliving the incidents of the trial and these enslaved Africans in the eighteenth century. New Works' Gibbeted, is a dramatized reading