A fellow GPUS delegate posted this on the NC discussion list. It’s NY Times article about an exhibit on slavery in New York and how 20% of NYers were slaves during that period of U.S. History. The article focuses on the impact the exhibit has had on its visitors.
Since you have to have a password to get into the NY Times, I’ve pasted the entire article here. It is very thought provoking.
The Anger and Shock of a City’s Slave Past
By FELICIA R. LEE
The New York Times, November 26, 2005
They have the awkwardness of amateur home videos:
background noise, long silences, people looking away from the camera. But inside a booth at the New-York Historical Society, visitors to the exhibition “Slavery in New York” are recording their reactions, creating snapshot reflections on race and history in the nation’s largest city.
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