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Lincoln
by Tony Kushner
President Abraham Lincoln delivers a complex legal and moral justification for the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet. He explores the paradoxical 'slippery' logic of using war powers to seize slaves as property while simultaneously maintaining they are free men, ultimately arguing for the necessity of the Thirteenth Amendment to ensure permanent abolition.
A Bright Room Called Day
A angry, defiant, determined, satirical ZILLAH's monologue from "A Bright Room Called Day" by Tony Kushner.
