As our Tubman200 series comes to a close, JProfessor spoke with Mary N. Elliott, museum specialist and curator of American slavery at the smithsonian.
then it’s the complaint that we have “too many” slave movies. So, I’m curious about this reaction. I think much of it is based on not only who’s telling the story but also how the story’s being told.
But then we also have some collection objects given to us, which were written by people who are lesser known. There are letters written between free Black people, between husbands and wives, even letters written during the Civil War by Black soldiers. And then there are the oral histories that were taken of formerly enslaved people.
You want to say that the Civil War was not about slavery? Why don’t we look at the secession documents? If you go to the section that talks about the 1860 presidential election, and you read what Abraham Lincoln was saying and what the president of the Confederacy was saying, you hear their first-person voice and you see in the secession documents one of them basically saying, “We define ourselves by African slavery.” Not slavery,slavery.
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