Sandwell Youth Service is developing the play as part of a wider project looking at history and heritage. It is designed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, and will be performed later in the year.
Derrick Gordon, lead youth officer on the scheme, said: "At the moment the young people are learning circus skills, and voice projection. But they are also learning about themselves in the process."
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