"Confederates" Surveys Some Common Ground Bridging the Past and the Present by Jan Simpson

In the opening monologue of Confederates, now running at the Pershing Square Signature Center through April 24, a college professor runs down a list of popular culture centered around slavery.  "I have," she says, "seen '12 Years a Slave,' Slave Play, The Slave, another play" not the same, 'Birth of a Nation,' 'The Birth of a Nation' "very different movies,  Father Comes Home from the Wars, An Octoroon, 'Harrie…

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