The Drama of King Shotaway, founded on Facts taken from the Insurrection of the Caravs on the Island of St. Vincent, written from Experience by Mr. Brown (1823) was a play believed to be by William Henry Brown.
Brown, who founded the African Theatre troupe in the 1820s,[1] was from the West Indies and became established in New York.
[2] He was both a playwright and the proprietor of the African Grove Theatre, which produced the play.
[1] The play was based on the life of Joseph Chatoyer (Satuye), a Garifuna chief who led a revolt of Black Carib people on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent against British rule in 1795.
It was the first known play written in the United States by a black man.