Smithsonian museum will revamp its slavery exhibit after artifact loan runs out
GARY FIELDS, RIVER ZHANG and JACQUELYN MARTIN
Associated Press
ASSOCIATED PRESS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is removing a rare slave ship timber from its Slavery and Freedom exhibit and sending it back to South Africa.
WASHINGTON — A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, when a remnant from one of the first sunken slave ships ever recovered is taken off display in Washington.
Anehtra Richmond of Woodbridge, Va., speaks to a reporter while visiting the National Museum of African American History and Culture, March 6, in Washington.
Jim Carnes of Birmingham, Ala., speaks to a reporter while visiting the National Museum of African American History and Culture on March 6 in Washington.
Anehtra Richmond of Woodbridge, Va., speaks to a reporter while visiting the National Museum of African American History and Culture, March 6, in Washington.
Jim Carnes of Birmingham, Ala., speaks to a reporter while visiting the National Museum of African American History and Culture on March 6 in Washington.
