Future Exhibits

The ZONG Speaks

In 1781 the ship ZONG sailing from Africa to Jamaica had more slave cargo then it could transport. Over crowded, malnutrition and decease had killed hundreds of slaves.

Captain Luke Collingwood was concerned that the sick slaves would not bring a profit on shore so he ordered hundreds be thrown overboard in order for him to collect the ships insurance.

The Slave Ship speaks is an unique way for American History to be told through audio and visual esthetic that will draw viewers into the experience of the slave. You'll hear the cries of women being raped by a ships captain. Young boys will be torn from their mother's arms and raped by white ship's officers. Some slaves would ingest their own feces.

A time travel will allow you to hear a snipers bullet and voices screaming as a Black leader lay dead.

This exhibit allows a peek into what took place in the lives of enslaved people under extraordinary conditions in the triangular slave trade.
 

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