One of his most memorable characters is Aunt Ester (or ancestor), who figures in four of his plays. In each play, she is as old as slavery, her birth dating back to 1619, the year the first slave ships sailed into North America. Wilson has called her his most important character, the matriarchal force that holds his series of ten plays together. She is “the embodiment of African wisdom and tradition,” he said, a spiritual healer who can make people whole. In Gem of the Ocean, she leads a man struggling with his conscience to the mythical City of Bones, where he meets his ancestors, discovers
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