slave-comedians

Updated: June 25, 2025

I came up into the dusky background, perceived only by a few, and he still continued. It was a narrative, dramatized to the last degree, of his adventures in escaping from his master to the Union vessels; and even I, who have heard the stories of Harriet Tubman, and such wonderful slave-comedians, never witnessed such a piece of acting.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Army Life in a Black Regiment