American artifacts visits archives and historic places. The National Museum of African American history and culture opened in september of 2016. Malled on the National Near the washington monument, the museum has quickly become one of the most visited in the nations capital, with capacity crowds almost every day. Next, we visit the museum to tour the history galleries which began three stories underground. Welcome to the slavery and freedom exhibition. My name is mary elliott and i am a Museum Specialist and cocurator of the exhibition, which is one of three in the history gallery at the museum. We have three exhibitions in this gallery and those exhibitions cover 15thcentury africa and europe all the way through today. Some of the themes we cover in the exhibition include holding onto humanity under some of the most inhumane conditions. Reality ofthe harsh how africans and African Americans shaped the world as well as the nation. We look at how they were shaped by the landscape and sh
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Welcome, everybody live at the l. A. Times book festival. We hope youre having an extraordinary day. Welcome also are friends coming in via this recording for cspans book tv. We are thrilled to be with you. My name is martha jones and i have the distinct pleasure of moderating the panel today. The legacy of slavery through the generations. My first task is to introduce the extraordinary authors. I begin to my left. Carry greenwich is the author of the grimkes the legacy of slavery in an american family. Congratulations on being a finalist this year before the l. A. Times book prize. Rachel jamison webster, author of Benjamin Banneker and us 11 generations of an american family. Welcome, rachel. Williams, author of, i saw death coming, a history of terror and survival in the war against reconstruction. And, the author of master slave husband wife and epic journey from slavery to freedom. You can already hear where this conversation will go and i am thrilled to help facilitate it. To sta
Welcome to the slavery and freedom exhibition. Im mary elliott. Im a Museum Specialist and cokurater of the slavery and freedom exhibition, which is one of three exhibitions here in this museum. We actually have three exhibitions in this gallery, and those exhibitions cover 15th century africa and europe all the way through today. Some of the things we cover include holding on to humanity under some of the most inhumane conditions. We look at the harsh reality of slavery and freedom and the resistance and survival of a people. We look at how africans and africanamericans shape the world as well as the nation. We look at how they were shaped by the landscape and shaped the landscape. Its important to point out that means socially, politically, economically, geographically, culturally and intellectually. Whats very important for people to understand is throughout this museum we look at these stories that are american stories. Theyre human stories and theyre told through the africanameric
Weekend on cspan 3. To join the conversation like us on facebook at cspan history. Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums, archives and historic places. It opened in september of 2016, located on the National Mall near the washington monument, the museum has quickly become one of the most visited in the nations capitol with capacity crowds almost every day. We tour the history galleries which began almost three stories underground. I am a Museum Specialist and cocurator of the slave freedom exhibition, which is one of three exhibitions here in the history museum. We actually have three exhibitions in this gallery, and those exhibitions cover 15th century africa and europe all the way through today. Some of the things we include holding onto humanity in some of the most inhumane conditions. We look at the harsh reality but resistance and survival of a people. We look at how africans and africanamericans shape the world as well as by a nation. We look at how the