There is an end to the slavery exhibit at the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Start underground, by the iron ballast and wooden ship pulley salvaged from the wreckage of a Portuguese slave ship. Keep going, past Nat Turner’s Bible and the Hagerstown Auction Block. Ahead to a shawl worn by Harriet Tubman and shackles worn by who knows how many. Eventually the exhibit bleeds into the next, upward and onward, to ground level, to an invitation to the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama.
In Ava DuVernay’s documentary, 13th, there is no end to the slavery exhibit....
https://thinkprogress.org/a-scathing-tour-of-the-prison-industrial-complex-in-ava-duvernays-netflix-documentary-13th-251257977026#.obkae8y5a

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