The opening monologue from Against My Heart, Robert Myers’s play about the British actress Fanny Kemble, is the first monologue in Monologues for Actors of Color: Men, published in 2016 by Routledge. In the monologue, Jefferson Davis’s escaped slave, William Jackson, thanks textile workers in Britain for boycotting cotton picked by American slaves. The collection contains monologues by George C. Wolfe, Anna Deveare Smith, Will Power, Stephen Adly Guirgis and Ismail Khalidi.