[Drop-Head Title:] Theatre, Leeds. For The Benefit Of Miss Goward. On Wednesday Evening, September 1, 1824 Will Be Peformed The Musical Play Of The Slave. [Theatre, Leeds]

Single leaf broadside. A trifle creased, margins shaved, several small holes, in one instance touching text without loss of sense. An apparently unrecorded playbill advertising a performance at the Leeds Theatre of playwright Thomas Morton's (bap. 1764, d. 1838) musical melodrama The Slave, first staged at Covent Garden in 1816. The narrative of the play centres upon Gambia, an enslaved African, who, having fought alongside slave-owners in quelling an indigenous revolt, is granted his liberty, only to sell himself back into slavery in order to save his former master from debt. Size: Dimensions 110 x 210 mm