33 5,000 Years of Slavery
Revue Stage
$17 / $8.50 for student groups
The question of why some people think they have the right to own other people has plagued Janet Willen for years, ever since she encountered Jim Crow laws in the southern United States as a girl. Through detailed research she and her sister accumulated first-hand stories about slavery—those who were (or are) slaves, those who owned slaves and those who have fought against slavery. From a young girl in early Egypt to Francis Bok, a young man captured by slave traders at the age of seven in present-day Sudan, Willen has interviewed and researched people caught up in the net of slavery—a trade we might have thought was old and shameful history.
Tickets are still available and can be purchased at the door 45 minutes before the event begins.
Suitable for grades 7–9
