In Abraham's Bosom
In Abraham's Bosom
Author: Paul Green
First Performance: 1926, New York
Published: 1927
Genre: Trag. in 7 scenes
Setting: North Carolina, 1885–1906
Cast: 10m, 2f
Abraham (‘Abe’) is the illegitimate son of mixed race of Colonel McCranie, a Southern gentleman. Concerned to help the African-American workers in the Colonel's turpentine woods, he asks his father for a schoolhouse. The Colonel's legitimate white son objects to Abe's forwardness and strikes him. Abe hits him back and is punished by the Colonel with a beating. Three years later Abe is married and has a son. His father, impressed by Abe's initiative, deeds him his house and land and even builds the schoolhouse. Eventually, most of Abe's pupils drop out of school. Fifteen years later Abe's school is long closed, and his arrogance has...
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