Tara Roberts is surfacing human stories from the shipwrecks that killed enslaved Africans
The storyteller joins a team of African American divers on their worldwide quest to shed light on the untold history of the ...
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A descendant of people trafficked aboard the slave ship Clotilda on learning from history’s unsung heroes
They were two of the 110 enslaved survivors aboard the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring ... a curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, has said of ...
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The Middle Passage
The final leg brought the ship back to Europe. The African slave boarding the ship had no idea what lay ahead. Africans who had made the Middle Passage to the plantations of the New World did not ...
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African American Smithsonian Sets a New Standard for Museums as Destinations
That's much like Detroit’s renowned Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, whose slave ship recreation is immersive and a bit frightening. Docents at D.C.’s African American ...
Review: D.C. Museum Exhibit Illuminates the Brutalities of Slavery (opinion)
The National Museum of African American History and Culture illuminates the brutalities of slavery and Jim Crow while also ...
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The Brooks slave ship drawing
The slave ship Brooks was first drawn and published in an abolitionist broadside by William Elford and the Plymouth chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in ...
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Sacred Ground: Charleston's International African American Museum's big plans
Oct 22, 2017 Oct 22, 2017 Updated Jun 13, 2023 Since the idea for the International African American Museum was publicly announced almost two decades ago, the project has swung on a pendulum of ...
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Plano African American Museum exhibit focuses on underground railroad to Mexico
A new exhibit at the Plano African American Museum focuses on the women who organized the Underground Railroad to Mexico, a ...
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Charleston's African American museum lands a $750K grant. Here's how it'll use it.
As the International African American Museum ... The Charleston museum plans to use the grant to deepen education efforts about the transatlantic slave trade. IAAM also plans to strengthen ...