![]() “It can become overwhelming, but my ancestors drive me.”įinding Our Roots unveiled the exhibition during a grand reopening held last month. ![]() “Believe it or not, I’m excited because I found out it’s one of my families who was on board,” she says. Now, almost 165 years after the Wanderer’s final voyage, the Finding Our Roots African American Museum in Houma, Louisiana, is telling the stories of the people who survived the transatlantic crossing and went on to live in the American South.Īs Margie Scoby, president and curator of the museum, tells the Courier’s Kezia Setyawan, creating the museum’s newest exhibition-titled “ Blood, Sweat and Tears”-was a fulfilling and deeply personal experience. The 19th-century ship the Wandererwas an opulent pleasure yacht with a sinister underside: a hidden deck where hundreds of enslaved Africans were held captive and illegally trafficked into the United States. ![]()
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