Oh Freedom! The Story of the Underground Railroad
By Peter Manos
Oh Freedom! The Story of the Underground Railroad is a one-act play that needs 4 or more performers (2 women, 2 men, 10 any gender). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- one-act play
- Cast size
- 4 or more performers
- Roles
- 2 women, 2 men, 10 any gender
- Cast notes
- 2 to 10m., 2 to 10w., up to 10 either gender.
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- historical
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
The greatest collaboration against racism in American history before the Civil Rights Movement was the Underground Railroad, in which persons of all ethnic backgrounds and of both sexes from North and South came together to resist the oppression of slavery by helping escaped slaves make their way to free territory in the years before the Civil War. Oh Freedom! The Story of the Underground Railroad celebrates this collaboration combining the stories of the men and women who were active in the fig
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