Harriet Tubman: LOVE SLAVE
A rap-poetic workshop musical by Terrell M. Green
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Interested in producing a run of Harriet Tubman: Love Slave? Email: 267proco@gmail.com Content Advisory: This production contains mature themes including depictions of enslavement, racial violence, sexual content, sensual movement, and emotionally intense material. The work intentionally challenges traditional portrayals of historical figures and may be provocative for some audiences.
What This Is
Harriet Tubman: Love Slave is a rap-poetic musical exploring the emotionally complex and rarely told truth of Harriet Tubman's early marriage to John Tubman. Before she became an icon of liberation, she was a young Black woman navigating love, betrayal, and survival under enslavement. This workshop showing offers audiences a raw, intimate look at the woman behind the legend.
Raven Noel
as Harriet Tubman
Da’Ante Bowman
as John Tubman
Terrell M. Green
Creator, Director, Producer
Artist Statement
This story is my attempt to restore Harriet Tubman’s humanity before history crowned her a myth. Harriet’s marriage was complicated, painful, and tender — and it shaped the fire she carried into her abolitionist work. By reframing her as a young woman in love, not only a hero in hindsight, we honor the fullness of her lived experience and invite audiences to see freedom as something deeply personal. - Terrell M. Green
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