African Grove
...that the African Grove theater was founded by free blacks in New York City in 1821—when New York was still a slave state—and that it launched the career of the great black Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge?
...that the <b id="mwApo"><a href="./African_Grove" id="mwAps" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="African Grove">African Grove</a></b> theater was founded by free blacks in <a href="./New_York_City" id="mwApw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New York City">New York City</a> in <a href="./1821" id="mwAp0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1821">1821</a><span id="mwAp4" typeof="mw:Entity">—</span>when <a class="mw-disambig" href="./New_York" id="mwAp8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New York">New York</a> was still a <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Slave_state" id="mwAqA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Slave state">slave state</a><span id="mwAqE" typeof="mw:Entity">—</span>and that it launched the career of the great black <a href="./William_Shakespeare" id="mwAqI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Shakespeare">Shakespearean</a> actor <a href="./Ira_Aldridge" id="mwAqM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ira Aldridge">Ira Aldridge</a>?