Guest Opinion: Yes, Slavery Really Was that Bad
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Guest Opinion: Yes, slavery really was that bad
As President Donald Trump and his compliant Republican partners take more and more control of America — the economy, law enforcement, education, foreign policy, voting, even libraries — museums are inevitably going to drift into the intersection of Trump’s crosshairs.
In essence, the president is not wrong: American historiography is on an ideological wrong path.
Slavery Was Bad and Must Be Remembered
President Donald Trump recently declared that “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been . . . .” From the 1660s, when Virginia (the largest colony) first passed laws regulating slavery, until the end of the Civil War, slavery was a central institution of American life, with about ten million people held as slaves. When the Ci…
Why the Smithsonian’s story of slavery matters for America’s future
Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). In a recent Newsweek opinion column, Kevin Powell draws on personal experience and cultural history to argue that America must tell the full truth about slavery if it hopes to move forward as a democracy. Powell begins with Langston Hughes’ 1926 poem “I, Too”, which declared Black belonging in America despite […]
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