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1. AASLAV_200121_01.JPG: Harriet Tubman's Lace Handkerchief This delicate lace handkerchief was owned by "Freedom Fighter" Harriet Tubman.
2. AASLAV_200121_07.JPG: Runaway Broadside Against great odds, enslaved African Americans escaped. They ran to family, to friends, or north to freedom. A runaway risked brutal punishment and retribution against loved ones left behind.
3. AASLAV_200121_17.JPG: Reflection on Nat Turner's Rebellion Nat Turner, an enslaved minister, used his intellect and mobility as a preacher to organize a slave revolt in Southampton, Virginia, in 1831. Turner's rebellion caused widespread panic among the white population. As a result, more severe restrictions were instituted limiting enslaved persons from gathering and practicing their faith. This letter written by Eleanor Weaver to her children provides some details of the event that gained nationwide attention. All the mischief done was confined to one county in the lower part of this state the County of Southampton. There was about 67 persons old & young put to death by about Eight or Ten Negroes ring leaders & some few they forced to assist them. say some 20 to thirty headed by a Negro preacher. All the murders was done in about 24 hours. They have all bin [sic] taken & put to death General Nat the preacher absconded & kept out of the way for several weeks but he was at last taken & put to death. We hope our government will take some steps to put down Negro preachi9ng. It is those large assemblies of Negroes causes the mischief. However I wish we had not one in this country they are an unhappy race & render all those that have them unhappy. However we have them & we must do the best we can with them.
4. AASLAV_200121_32.JPG: Nat Turner's Rebellion, 1831 Enslaved people rose up in Southampton County, Virginia, on August 21, 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebels moved across plantations, murdering roughly 55 whites and rally enslaved people. They planned to move on to Jerusalem, Virginia, to seize guns and then make a permanent home in the Great Dismal Swamp. By August 23, the rebels had been defeated. More than 200 black men and women, both enslaved and free, were executed. Nat Turner's Rebellion alarmed Americans and inflamed the debate over slavery.
5. AASLAV_200121_35.JPG: Brick from the Whitehead Plantation: Turner claimed that God called on him to "slay my enemies with their own weapons." He took the life of Margaret Whitehead during his rebellion.
6. AASLAV_200121_41.JPG: Rebellion The largest slave rebellions included the Stono Rebellion (South Carolina, 1739), the New York Conspiracy (1741), Gabriel's Revolution (Richmond, Virgina, 1800), Deslondes's Rebellion (Louisiana, 1811), Fort Blount (Florida, 1816), Vesey's Rebellion (Charleston, South Carolina, 1822), Nat Turner's Rebellion (Southampton County, Virginia, 1831), the Amistad Mutiny (slave ship, 1839), and the Creole Revolt (slave ship, 1841).
7. AASLAV_200121_45.JPG: Striking for Freedom Slave rebellions carried bloody consequences. Rebels were executed. Family, friends, and neighbors might be beaten and killed. In some cases, slave owners placed the bloodied and dismembered bodies in public view to remind passersby of slavery's awful power. Nevertheless, against terrible odds, enslaved people chose to rebel.
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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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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11. The child president's handling of the pandemic was a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and dramatically increasing infections and deaths here.The BLM protests started in June, made all the worse by the child president's inability to have any empathy for anyone other than himself. Then of course he tried to steal the election in November. What a year! Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. The farthest distance I traveled after that was about 40 miles. I only visited sites in four states -- Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC. That was the least amount of travel I had done since 1995. Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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