The Slave
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"The Slave" is a provocative 1964 one-act play by Amiri Baraka that explores Black nationalism, racial conflict, and revolutionary violence in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Slave canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2165383 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Slave Context triple: [Amiri Baraka, notableWork, The Slave]
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A.
The Slave
The Slave is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer that explores themes of faith, love, and spiritual resilience in 17th-century Poland through the story of a Jewish man enslaved after a massacre.
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B.
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
"Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" is an 1856 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores resistance to slavery through the story of fugitive slaves living in the Great Dismal Swamp.
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C.
Book of Negroes
The Book of Negroes is a historical ledger compiled by the British in 1783 that records the names and details of thousands of Black Loyalists who were evacuated from the United States to British territories after the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an 1861 autobiographical slave narrative by Harriet Jacobs that exposes the sexual exploitation and brutal realities of slavery from a Black woman’s perspective.
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E.
The Coming Slavery
"The Coming Slavery" is an essay by Herbert Spencer warning that expanding state control and social legislation would gradually erode individual liberty and lead to a form of modern servitude.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Slave Target entity description: "The Slave" is a provocative 1964 one-act play by Amiri Baraka that explores Black nationalism, racial conflict, and revolutionary violence in the United States.
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A.
The Slave
The Slave is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer that explores themes of faith, love, and spiritual resilience in 17th-century Poland through the story of a Jewish man enslaved after a massacre.
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B.
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
"Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" is an 1856 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores resistance to slavery through the story of fugitive slaves living in the Great Dismal Swamp.
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C.
Book of Negroes
The Book of Negroes is a historical ledger compiled by the British in 1783 that records the names and details of thousands of Black Loyalists who were evacuated from the United States to British territories after the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an 1861 autobiographical slave narrative by Harriet Jacobs that exposes the sexual exploitation and brutal realities of slavery from a Black woman’s perspective.
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E.
The Coming Slavery
"The Coming Slavery" is an essay by Herbert Spencer warning that expanding state control and social legislation would gradually erode individual liberty and lead to a form of modern servitude.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
one-act play
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play ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Black Arts Movement ⓘ |
| author | Amiri Baraka ⓘ |
| character |
Brad
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Grace ⓘ Walker Vessels ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| dramaticMode | realism ⓘ |
| firstPerformedInDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| form | one-act ⓘ |
| genre |
African-American theatre
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drama ⓘ political drama ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Black nationalism in the United States
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Black–white relations ⓘ class and race ⓘ marriage and divorce ⓘ racial violence in the United States ⓘ revolutionary politics ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American drama ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Walker Vessels ⓘ |
| movement | Black Arts Movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of interracial tensions during a race war
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exploration of Black nationalism on stage ⓘ provocative and confrontational dialogue ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalMedium | theatre ⓘ |
| protagonist | Walker Vessels ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary United States ⓘ |
| setting | a middle-class white couple's home ⓘ |
| structure | single act ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | Black revolutionary leader confronting his white ex-wife and her white husband ⓘ |
| theme |
Black nationalism
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identity ⓘ interracial relationships ⓘ political extremism ⓘ race relations in the United States ⓘ racial conflict ⓘ revolution ⓘ revolutionary violence ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| tone |
confrontational
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provocative ⓘ |
| writer | Amiri Baraka ⓘ |
| yearOfPremiere | 1964 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Slave Description of subject: "The Slave" is a provocative 1964 one-act play by Amiri Baraka that explores Black nationalism, racial conflict, and revolutionary violence in the United States.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jacob (character in The Slave)