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Beginning with his autobiographical sketch, “Memoir and Theatrical Career of Ira Aldridge, The African Roscius” follows Aldridge's journey as a Black man who, "obtained and maintains among Europeans, a reputation whose acquisition demands the highest qualities of the mind and the noblest endowments of the person." Making it a lifetime goal to use his success and influence to speak on the horrors of slavery in America and abroad, this memoir is...