Episode 68 - King Shotaway: The Garifuna Story at the Birth of Black Theatre in New York

Send us Fan Mail Before Broadway became a global symbol, Black New Yorkers created a stage of their own - and one of its foundational original dramas centered the Garifuna resistance of St. Vincent. In Episode 68, host José Francisco Ávila explores William Alexander Brown's African Grove/African Theatre and The Drama of King Shotaway, the now-lost play about Paramount Chief Joseph Chatoyer. What can the surviving record tell us? Why do sources cite both 1822 and 1823? And what does this conn...