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flipped eye has scooped "Abolition", a stage play which gives a "gripping look behind the scenes at the termination of the transatlantic slave trade", by Gabriel Gbadamosi.
Mitchell Albert, head of fiction, acquired world rights from Sam Greenwood at Curtis Brown. The play will be published on 12th October 2023.
Set in 1792, "Abolition" gives "the voices of people caught up in the original sin of slavery and fighting to survive it, profit from it, ignore it, or end it: slavers, slaves, sailors, and mobs, plus a radical abolitionist named Fox, the cautious anti-slavery politician William Wilberforce and a pragmatic Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger".
The play combines "impeccable research and uncanny fidelity to the language of its time" and is set across Liverpool, the Palace of Westminster and aboard the "Blackamoor Jenny".