Seeing slavery as an event worthy of inclusion and interpretation in museums and historic venues is relatively new, and not without controversy.
Curator Joy Bivins said the museum will be about far more than slavery, but “it would be a missing part of the story if we didn’t look at the ways people resisted slavery and the legacies and institutions they built after enslavement.”
African American art, he said, possesses its own inherent value and is an artifact of African American history.Seeing slavery as an event worthy of inclusion and interpretation in museums and historic venues is relatively new. Tourism related to slavery has grown across the country as areas embrace, not hide, their history, and as more Americans of all ethnicities seek out their roots. Historic venues feature slave graveyards, slave quarters and more information than ever about the history of enslaved people.
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