This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. When Ira Aldridge was a teenager, he fell in love with the theatre. But he was a Black kid born in Manhattan in 1807, which meant that his options were limited.
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. When Ira Aldridge was a teenager, he fell in love with the theatre. But he was a Black kid born in Manhattan in 1807, which meant that his options were limited.
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