Plot

In an attempt to rein her in, a plantation owner binds his female ward to him by shame. Will the birth of their child mean freedom or a shackle to the past? An elegy for the souls that worked the forgotten plantation fields, some whose descendents now populate the Buxton Settlement, Cinnamon Hill honours the women whose struggle for voice and home inspired the writings of human rights advocates Sojourner Truth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.—Tara Raquel Cates

Set in the early 1800's, a plantation owner's son binds his female ward to him by shame. Will the birth of their child mean freedom or a shackle to the past? An elegy for the souls who worked the plantation fields, Cinnamon Hill honours the women whose struggle for voice and home inspired the writings of human rights advocates Sojourner Truth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Music is from the musical play Cinnamon Hill, based on the black ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning currently being developed by librettist Tara Cates & composer Kevin Nelson.—Anonymous