Mulatto
Mulatto Author: Langston Hughes
First Performance: 1935
Published: 1963
Genre: Trag. in 2 acts
Setting: The Big House, plantation in Georgia, 1930s
Cast: 9m, 2f, 1 child (m)
Colonel Thomas Norwood, a rich plantation owner, has fathered several children with his long-suffering black housekeeper Cora Lewis. Two of his ‘mulatto’ children, Sallie and Robert, impress their father sufficiently for him to send them to be educated in the freer atmosphere of the north. When Sallie returns home, she is seduced by the Colonel's evil overseer Talbot. Robert is much less compliant than Sallie and now feels himself the equal of his white compatriots. However, when he demands of his father that he be treated as a white, the Colonel, furious at his son's perceived impudence, threatens to shoot him. Robert strangles his...
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