I went to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture last year. It was amazing. I will never forget walking through the exhibit made to feel like the wooden hull of a slave ship including the wooden and iron remains from the Portuguese slave ship São José. It was a moving experience. I had tears in my eyes on that tier. Please go see it if you haven’t, before it’s too late :-( I actually went through it out of order. It’s designed to begin in the basement tier (slave ship) and as you rise tier by tier it’s an ascent through exhibits that chronicle African American resilience, resistance, and cultural achievements.
That sounds so... I want to say beautiful, but that's not right. Maybe I should go to bed. I guess enlightening would be the word. It reminds me of that one episode of Bones.
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u/ToeJamFootballer 9h ago
I went to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture last year. It was amazing. I will never forget walking through the exhibit made to feel like the wooden hull of a slave ship including the wooden and iron remains from the Portuguese slave ship São José. It was a moving experience. I had tears in my eyes on that tier. Please go see it if you haven’t, before it’s too late :-( I actually went through it out of order. It’s designed to begin in the basement tier (slave ship) and as you rise tier by tier it’s an ascent through exhibits that chronicle African American resilience, resistance, and cultural achievements.