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“Let My People Go: The Trials of
Bondage in Words of Master and Slave” is a presentation based on actual
court documents dealing with slaves prior to the Civil War. The work
will be performed by the Touring Theatre Ensemble of North Carolina at
the Falany Performing Arts Center on the campus of Reinhardt College
(Waleska, Ga.) on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006, at 7 p.m. As part of the
College’s Black History Month and Year of Africa, the public is invited
to attend free of charge.
The work uses 14 stories taken from
some 17,000 court petitions filed across the South before the War
Between the States. These accounts, presented in the actual words of
the official records, are interspersed with familiar spirituals from the
same time period.
Though some of the stories follow
stereotypes, others reveal shocking, less talked about aspects of
slavery, and all are testament to the unspeakable acts of inhumanity.
This program is sponsored by the
Office of Student Affairs at Reinhardt College. For more information,
call the Falany Performing Arts Center box office at (770) 720-9167, or
go on-line at http://www.reinhardt.edu/fpac. |
