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  • Why America Needs a Slavery Museum (2015)
  • Short | 7 min | Documentary, Short
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Why America Needs a Slavery Museum (2015)
Short | 7 min | Documentary, Short
The Whitney Plantation near Wallace, Louisiana, is the first and only U.S. museum and memorial to slavery. John Cummings, a 78-year-old white southerner, has spent 16 years and more than $8 million of his own fortune to build the project, ...See moreThe Whitney Plantation near Wallace, Louisiana, is the first and only U.S. museum and memorial to slavery. John Cummings, a 78-year-old white southerner, has spent 16 years and more than $8 million of his own fortune to build the project, which opened in December of 2014. Cummings, a successful trial attorney, developed the museum with the help of his full-time director of research, Ibrahima Seck. The duo hope to educate people on the realities of slavery in its time and its impact in the United States today. "The history of this country is rooted in slavery,' says Seck. "If you don't understand the source of the problem, how can you solve it?" See less
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Paul Rosenfeld
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Paul Rosenfeld (producer)
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Sam Price-Waldman
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