UNCLE TOM'S WAR: Haiti and the Whipping Machine

50 minute spoken word performance, followed by open mic for discussion, poetry, rants...
Fascism is on the rise. Less than a hundred years ago, it led to a World War that killed over 70 million people. We are so much more powerful now. The future of the human race is at stake. Uncle Tom’s War is the story of one of the most important revolutions in the history of the world and the lessons it has for us in these dangerous times.

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“This is an exceptional one-person show… Morgan knows his material very well, but aside from the history lesson, his words land. There is a simplicity to the rhythm of the poetry in a conversational style. This is a superior poet with the ability to engage.” – Donald Stewart

David Lee Morgan has featured on poetry stages from StAnza (St Andrews) to Lingo (Dublin) to the NYC Poetry Festival. His provocative work tackles complex themes and is praised for its passionate, intellectually rigorous performance. His 2019 Nazis Need Jews (winner of Best Spoken Word Show at the Morecambe Fringe) criticised antisemitism on the Left while also attacking Israel’s right to exist as an apartheid, settler state. His Poems on Gender was the subject of a 2022 feature article in the New York Times, when it was cancelled by the New York Fringe Festival, because it defended women’s right to male-free spaces and criticised the medicalisation of gender non-conforming children. Recently, his Brick Lane appearance at the 25th anniversary of Shikor and Global Poetry, performing his original translation of Kazi Nazrul Islam’s much loved poem, Bidrohi (The Rebel), went viral on Facebook and was seen by over 10 million viewers.

The Haitian revolution (1791-1804) shamed the American Revolution; it forced the French Revolution to abolish slavery. When Napoleon came to power and ordered the invasion of Haiti to push it back into slavery, he lost more troops than at the Battle of Waterloo.

The Haitian people paid a terrible price for their freedom. They are still being made to pay for it. We can be inspired by their struggle, but more than that, we can learn from it and carry it forward to liberate the world.

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Host or Publisher David Lee Mogan