Blind the Slaves, for them not to read

LORRAINE HANSBERRY — THE DRINKING GOURD — 1960

This play was commissioned for the centenary of the Civil War, hence in 1959, and was produced for television in 1960. It deals with a plantation situation in 1859 just before the beginning of the Civil War. We are in the South, in one of the colonies that are going to build the Confederacy. We are in a big plantation…