Virgin Islander James de Jongh, who put stories of slavery onstage, dies at 80
St. Thomas native James de Jongh, a scholar and playwright best known for fashioning oral histories left by formerly enslaved people in the 1930s into “Do Lord Remember Me,” a 1978 stage work that painted an unflinching picture of the…
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Source: Virgin Islands Daily News