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The magnificent Stephen / Larry Muhammad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Muhammad, Larry, author.
- Series:
- Black Drama, Third Edition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--United States--Drama.
- Racism.
- Slavery--United States--Drama.
- Slavery.
- Mammoth Cave (Ky.)--Drama.
- Mammoth Cave (Ky.).
- United States--Race relations--Drama.
- United States.
- Bishop, Stephen, 1821?-1857--Drama.
- Bishop, Stephen.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (74 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2011.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- A celebrated enslaved guide at Mammoth Cave in the 1850s miscalculates the limits of his fame in a life-and-death quest for the freedom promised in his late master's will. Internationally renowned for his showmanship and underground exploits, he was first to cross the dangerous chasm called the Bottomless Pit, discovered eyeless fish and other exotic species adapted to total darkness, was handpicked guide for Charles Dickens, opera star Jenny Lind and other dignitaries visiting the Cave. But the authority he commands underground is invalidated by the harsh antebellum realities on the surface as the Civil War approaches. He watches helpless as a villainous master drags away the preteen daughters of a friend to the slave market for sale. He is powerless to protect the Cave from a dangerous and potentially disfiguring commercial development planned by management. Ahead of his time, out of step, an enslaved man tragically alienated from a demeaning life of servitude, he makes a fateful climactic bid for the dignified manhood so long denied. Based on the remarkable life of Stephen Bishop, an enslaved man who spoke Greek and Latin, confounded scientists with an incredible knowledge of geology and became a legend in his own time, only to die mysteriously at age 37, a year after he was freed.
- Notes:
- Title from caption (viewed August 11, 2022).
- Characters: Stephen, Benjamin, TL, Lowry, Mat, Parthena, Josephine, Idealla, Charlotte, Thomas, Richard, Nick.
- OCLC:
- 1347494894
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