Music and Queered Temporality in Slave Play by Imogen Wilson

“…I extract case studies from Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play (2019), a recent Broadway production which explores the impact in contemporary America of inherited trauma from slavery, by interrogating the sexual power imbalances within three interracial couples. …”
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Re/playing slavery: The play within the play in Suzan-Lori Parks’s White Noise and Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play by Ilka Saal, Jade Thomas

“…Comparing Suzan-Lori Parks’s White Noise (2019) and Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play (2018), the article discusses what the metatheatrical re/play of slavery in the two plays affords, in terms of possibilities and limits, for probing the continuing psychic and affective hold of slavery on contemporary subjects. …”
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LA DESMEMORIA IMPUESTA A LOS HOMBRES QUE TRAJERON: CARTAGENA DE INDIAS EN EL SIGLO XVI Y XVII. UN DEPÓSITO DE ESCLAVOS THE 'UN-MEMORY IMPOSED TO THE MAN THEY BROUGHT: CARTAGENA OF... by Antonino Vidal Ortega, Jorge Enrique Elias Caro

“…<br>This paper will focus on the role slaves played in the city of Cartagena de Indias in the seventeenth century. …”
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POR MI PRECIO O MI BUEN COMPORTAMIENTO: OPORTUNIDADES Y ESTRATEGIAS DE MANUMISIÓN DE LOS ESCLAVOS NEGROS Y MULATOS EN SANTIAGO DE CHILE, 1698-1750 by Claudio Moisés Ogass Bilbao

“…After the crossed analysis of these primary sources the author argues that various emotional, socio-economic and legal impediments gave shape to a rigid institution that allowed a minimum flexibility to obtain liberty. Thus, slaves played an active role in their own manumission processes, negotiating agreements through payment for their freedom or opting for the strategy of manumission trough good behavior.…”
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