The National Parks of Boston and Plays in Place are excited to announce the production of the first play in the Suffrage in Black and White series
At the Massachusetts State House, on February 21, 1838, exiled Southerner Angelina Grimké becomes the first American woman to address a legislative body. Her powerful speech about abolition also firmly asserts the full citizenship of American women. Four other women abolitionists–Maria Weston Chapman, Lydia Maria Child, Susan Paul, and Julia Williams–are all there to support and guide her through this pressure-packed moment, and they have their own moments of intense struggle to share. To be staged in the Massachusetts State Senate Chamber, under the dome where Angelina gave her original speech.
Performances on Monday, 8/12 at 6:30pm and Thursday, 8/15 at 6:30pm will include ASL
interpretation.
