BGuthrie Photos: DC -- NMAAHC -- Exhibit: (C3) Slavery and Freedom 1400-1877

DC -- NMAAHC -- Exhibit: (C3) Slavery and Freedom 1400-1877:

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1. AASLAV_171129_036.JPG: This was professor Ed Ayer's first visit to the museum (center). He ran into a curator (right) who recognized him. The guy on the left was someone who had donated an artifact to the museum.
2. AASLAV_171129_065.JPG: Contested History: Auction blocks tell an unvarnished truth. But as iconic objects of slavery, they are often viewed with great skepticism. Slave auction ads and statements from observers help authenticate these objects across the United States. Yet slavery remains an emotionally charged subject, and even the most thoroughly documented artifacts are still contested. The Hagerstown Auction Block: Many African Americans, it is believed, were sold from this block as slaves, fugitives, and kidnapped free men, women, and children. Hagerstown, Maryland, was a hotbed of fugitive slave activity and slave trading. Because it was so close to Pennsylvania, a free state, the local sheriff made money by capturing and selling accused fugitives. Ads announced the sales of enslaved people in the courthouse and in the jail yard, common sites for slave auctions in most states.
3. AASLAV_171129_069.JPG: On the Block
4. AASLAV_171129_081.JPG: General Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay spoke from this slave rock in Hagerstown during the year 1830
5. AASLAV_171129_096.JPG: Point of Pines Cabin
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Description of Subject Matter: Slavery and Freedom
September 24, 2016 – Indefinitely
As the centerpiece of the museum, this exhibition explores the complex story of slavery and freedom, a story standing at the core of our national experience. Beginning in the 15th century with the transatlantic slave trade, through the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, the exhibition uses personal stories to explore the economic and political legacies of slavery for all Americans.
Priceless objects featured include:
* Harriett Tubman’s shawl and hymn book (c. 1876)
* Nat Turner’s bible (1830s)
* shackles used for an enslaved child
* a slave cabin from Edisto Island, S.C.
* a pocket copy of the Emancipation Proclamation read from by soldiers bringing news of freedom to the U.S. Colored Troops
* freedom papers (c. 1852) carried by a former slave, Joseph Trammell
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- Ayers, Ed appears on:
  - 2018_DC_Ayers_180430 National History Center -- Ed Ayers ("Thin Light of Freedom") @ Wilson Center
  - 2017_DC_Ayers_171129 Natl Archives -- Edward L. Ayers ("The Thin Light of Freedom")
  - 2017_DC_Film_Forum_C1_170311 DC -- 2017 History Film Forum -- Day 3: Panel 1: Women in History Filmmaking: Nancy Buirski, Lynn Novick, Hannah Ayers, Melissa Haizlip and Laurens Grant
  - 2017_DC_Film_Forum_C2_170311 DC -- 2017 History Film Forum -- Day 3: Panel 2: Inside Crash Course: Nicholas Jenkins, Blake de Pastino, Nicole Sweeney, Raoul Meyer, Stan Muller, and Ed Ayers
  - 2017_DC_Film_Forum_B2_170310 DC -- 2017 History Film Forum -- Day 2: Panel 2: Responsibilities of History Filmmakers: A. Scott Berg, Ed Ayers, Melissa Haizlip, Nancy Buirski and Sheila Curran Bernard
  - 2015_DC_Backstory_Live_151122 Natl Museum of Amer History -- Event: BackStory Live (100th anniversary of "The Birth of a Nation")
  - 2015_DC_Ayers_150624 Library of Congress Kluge Center -- Event: Ed Ayers ("The Shape of the Civil War")
  - 2015_DC_Gateway_150203 Natl Archives -- Eric Foner ("Gateway to Freedom") w/Ed Ayers, Edna Greene Medford, and Adam Rothman
  - 2013_DC_Freedom_Natl_130124 Natl Archives -- Panel -- Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
  - 2012_VA_CWT_Reception_120607 CWT Annual Conference (2012) in Richmond, VA -- Reception and dinner for Color Bearers
2017 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Trips this year: Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA, a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin), New York City, and my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona). For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about: "Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo), "The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy), "The American Spirit" (David McCullough), "Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert), "The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and "The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover). Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.
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