Shallow Brown

Stories of Black Sailors in the Antebellum South

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Play synopsis

In SHALLOW BROWN, Thessalonia falls hard for a free sailor, one of the many who smuggles pages of the radical Black self-defense manifesto, “David Walker’s Appeal”, from Boston up and down the eastern seaboard in 1829. Read more.

“Shallow Brown” Performance on May 3rd

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Sailor Events

Interview on Jordan Journal, WBAI FM

Research Journey

Excerpt from Shallow Brown the play