speech, Gage said about Davis:She was well aware that the classical canon was by and about white people and she embraced the work of contemporary Black playwrights attempting to write new epic plays. She produced and performed in plays about the successful slave rebellion in Haiti, and she co-wrote a musical called My Old Kentucky Home. Unlike other plantation shows, Henrietta’s play included the war, and the entire second act portrayed formerly enslaved people taking over the plantation of their former captors. Not surprisingly, her theatre company ended up broke and stranded in Denver. An opinion by some people is that, since Henrietta was so far ahead of her time, she has largely been written out of the history of Black theatre. See also List of orators American Dramatists American Impressionists American literature Theater of the United States Marcus Garvey Universal Negro Improvement Association Black Cross Nurses References External links The Henrietta Vinton Davis Memorial Foundation The Official UNIA-ACL website Marcus Garvey proclaimed her the "greatest woman of the negro race today." Cleveland Gazette, 12 May 1888 Comparing the Role of Women in the Garvey Movement People & Events: Women in the Garvey Movement Letter from Henrietta Vinton Davis to George Myers 26 January 1899 Letter from Henrietta Vinton Davies to George Myers 28 January 1897 Cleveland Gazette, 9 February 1884. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, Tragedienne, Cleveland Gazette, 24 April 1886 Our Old Kentucky Home Henrietta Vinton Davis House HENRIETTA VINTON DAVIS AND THE GARVEY MOVEMENT by William Seraile 1860 births 1941 deaths Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League members American women dramatists and playwrights American pan-Africanists African-American actresses Actresses from Baltimore American stage actresses 19th-century American actresses 20th-century American actresses Black Star Line Burials at Columbian Harmony Cemetery Burials at National Harmony Memorial Park 19th-century American dramatists and playwrights 19th-century American women writers Elocutionists 20th-century African-American women 20th-century African-American people