Brian Tice

The Other Cassius Clay Brian Tice

The life of controversial Emancipationist Cassius Marcellus Clay, son of the wealthiest slave-owner in 19th-century Kentucky and founder of the nation's first integrated college (Berea College, Kentucky), who granted freedom to his inherited slaves and to many others and spoke out openly against the "evil institution of slavery," making him countless enemies throughout the slave-owning South. Originally performed February 7 & 8, 2003 by Rockhill Free Theatre Players in Kalamazoo, Michigan."Like Hamilton, plays like this help illustrate our history for those that do not know it very well. I did not know that Cassius Clay was a real man who really stood up for his belief and did the right thing back when the right thing was thought to be like everyone else, a slaveowner." -- Ronald W. Hull, author of The Kaleidoscope Effect, War's End, American Mole: The Vespers, and Alone