Zina: the Slave Girl; or, Which the Traitor?

A visceral abolitionist drama that punches through history's silence about slavery's brutality. Zina, a young enslaved girl, endures unspeakable cruelty under the merciless master Keele Brightly, yet clings to an unquenchable yearning for freedom and dignity. When Martelle D'Arneaux enters her life, a flicker of hope emerges, though the play's tantalizing subtitle, "Which the Traitor?," hints that trust itself may become another cage. Written in the late 19th century, this play doesn't merely depict suffering it demands that its audience reckon with the moral horror of human bondage. The drama builds toward a confrontation that forces characters and readers alike to choose where their loyalties truly lie. For readers who crave historical fiction that doesn't flinch, who want to understand how hope survives when every institution is arrayed against it.