An Octoroon

By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Book Overview

Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton's handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M'Closky has other plans--for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082223226X
• ISBN13: 9780822232261
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Concord Theatricals
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.