The Columbus Museum Presents Let the Records Show: Discovering the Valley’s Black Community in Slavery and Freedom
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Let the Records Show:
Discovering the Valley’s Black Community in Slavery and Freedom
January 17, 2010 – July 11, 2010
The exhibition focuses the experiences of slaves and freedmen through an examination of several types of documentary evidence. Based on historical records including bills of sale, estate inventories, city ordinances and personal letters; the exhibit gives insight into their lives of slaves, a population of nearly 90,000, who lived in the Chattahoochee River Valley of Georgia and Alabama.
There will be an Opening Reception and Lecture on Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 6p.m.
Opening Reception and Lecture
Guest Scholar: Dr. Anthony Gene Carey
(author and former chair of the Auburn University History Department now serving on the Appalachian State University faculty)
Subject: “Sold Down the River: Slavery in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia.”
Location: The Patrick Theatre
A reception will follow in the Turner Galleria.
Please RSVP by Monday, January 18, 2010
Contact: Mary Goff
Phone: 706.748.2562, ext. 210
or email: mgoff@columbusmuseum.com.
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