TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boucicault,Dion
TI  - The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana. A Play in Five acts
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Love -- Drama
KW  - Louisiana -- Drama
KW  - Slavery -- Drama
KW  - Enslaved persons -- Drama
KW  - Plantations -- Drama
KW  - Racially mixed women -- Drama
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octoroon; Release date is 2014-06-24; Produced by Roger Burch, from scans obtained from the Internet Archive; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana. A Play in Five acts" by Dion Boucicault is a play that opened in 1859. Set on a failing Louisiana plantation, it tells the story of George Peyton, who falls in love with Zoe, an enslaved woman of mixed race. Their romance faces insurmountable legal and social barriers in the antebellum South. When the villain McClosky commits murder to seize the property and claim Zoe for himself, tragedy unfolds. This anti-slavery melodrama sparked fierce debates about abolition and theatrical politics. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46091
ER  -