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Reflecting on Harriet: Playwright Kyle Bass in Conversation

Prolific playwright Kyle Bass comes to The Mark Twain House & Museum to discuss the upcoming HartBeat Ensemble production of his play, Possessing Harriet. His new play tells the true story of Harriet Powell, a young mixed-race, enslaved woman who escapes her owners at a hotel in Syracuse, New York. Formerly enslaved Underground Railroad conductor Thomas Leonard brings her to the home of impassioned abolitionist Gerrit Smith, who is hosting his young cousin Elizabeth Cady (yes! before she was a Stanton!), a women’s rights advocate. In the 90 minutes before her nighttime escape to Canada, Harriet confronts new ideas about race, gender and equality as she answers the tragic question: What will she give up for freedom? Kyle will be in conversation with Hartford native Channon Miller, Trinity College Assistant Professor of History and American Studies. They’ll discuss the play’s investigation of the interior and exterior lives of black women during slavery, and the tragic choice between freedom and leaving family many had to make.