(LITERATURE AND POETRY) GRIMKE ANGELINA W Rachel A Play in T

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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) GRIMKE, ANGELINA W. Rachel: A Play in Three Acts. 96, [6 blank], pages. Small 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine; a few small spots to the cloth spine. Boston: Cornhill, (1920)

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scarce first edition of the first published and produced play by an african american woman. Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958) was named for her white great aunt Angelina Grimke Weld. Together with her sister Sarah, Angelina moved North in the early part of the 19th century in order to have no connection with the ownership of slaves. They became well-known abolitionist and women's rights advocates. Angelina Grimke was the granddaughter of the sisters' slave-owning brother Henry and his slave Nancy Weston. Rachel was first produced by the NAACP at the Myrtill Minor Normal School in Washington D.C. 1916. It was later produced at the Neighborhood Theatre in New York and in Cambridge, in1917 and collected in Alain Locke's "Plays of Negro Life" (1927).