... standards. Blood on the Reids is in 20 sections, each pointing up a different aspect of the black experience, the degradation of slavery being set side by side with the wealth of the different kinds of music with which black people lightened or lamented their ...

... guests visiting the King in Siam are presented with a musical play about the small house of Uncle Thomas, inspired by the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. It is a poignant scene, for the story of racial persecution is appropriate ly told by Tuptim, herself ...