US Slavery Museum Takes Uncensored Look
US slavery museum takes uncensored look - The Boston Globe: "US slavery museum takes uncensored look
`Heritage tourism' a growing industry
By Heather Gehlert, Los Angeles Times | August 20, 2006
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. -- Inferiority. Servitude. Racism. These are a few of the words that Vonita W. Foster uses when she travels to middle schools and high schools to teach students about slavery -- a subject that, more than 140 years after its end, still makes some black students squirm.
"They're kind of uncomfortable,' she said. ``They're embarrassed that their ancestors were slaves, because they don't know the heritage.'
Foster is on a mission to change that. She has become a driving force in creating the United States' first national museum dedicated to slavery.
With 290,000 square feet of space and a $200 million budget, the US National Slavery Museum, scheduled to open in Fredericksburg in 2008, is a high-end example of a growing market trend, as the tourism industry realizes the popularity and profitability of opening and re examining one of American history's ugliest scars.
Slavery studies has been growing as a field of interest in the past few decades, as people have sought the uncensored, unsanitized story of the trans-Atlantic slave trade -- a topic that Foster, who will be the museum's executive director, says is"
`Heritage tourism' a growing industry
By Heather Gehlert, Los Angeles Times | August 20, 2006
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. -- Inferiority. Servitude. Racism. These are a few of the words that Vonita W. Foster uses when she travels to middle schools and high schools to teach students about slavery -- a subject that, more than 140 years after its end, still makes some black students squirm.
"They're kind of uncomfortable,' she said. ``They're embarrassed that their ancestors were slaves, because they don't know the heritage.'
Foster is on a mission to change that. She has become a driving force in creating the United States' first national museum dedicated to slavery.
With 290,000 square feet of space and a $200 million budget, the US National Slavery Museum, scheduled to open in Fredericksburg in 2008, is a high-end example of a growing market trend, as the tourism industry realizes the popularity and profitability of opening and re examining one of American history's ugliest scars.
Slavery studies has been growing as a field of interest in the past few decades, as people have sought the uncensored, unsanitized story of the trans-Atlantic slave trade -- a topic that Foster, who will be the museum's executive director, says is"
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