![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s also acknowledging that once we got to where we were, we also began to build communities and civilizations.” “It’s acknowledging that there were communities and civilizations and people that we were taken from,” she told CNN. The project – with an ancestry research center, a powerful tribute those named in commercial records and memorial gardens with an artistic nod to the sea – aims to highlight enslaved people’s societies on both sides of their brutal journey, museum President and CEO Tonya Matthews said ahead of Saturday’s dedication and a June 27 public opening. Hundreds also died at the site, which until museum planning began carried only a small marker to note its significance. The International African American Museum will open at Gadsden’s Wharf in Charleston, South Carolina, where more than 40% of the nation’s enslaved Africans arrived for sale into bondage, museum officials said. At the site of one of the world’s most prolific slave ports, a museum designed to “simultaneously hold the sensations of trauma and joy” is set to open next week honoring the many thousands of Africans forced to leave home under barbaric conditions as it also celebrates their essential American legacy. ![]()
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