What Jack Wore: Incorporating the history of enslaved people at a Pennsylvania farmstead
04 June 2019 – Sarah Biehl and Kimberly D. Boice 4
historic sites, Black museums series, The Public Historian, slavery, historic house museums, TPH 40.3, African American history, agricultural history
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a History@Work series that complements The Public Historian, volume 40, number 3, which is about the history of the field of Black Museums. Shawn Halifax writes in “McLeod Plantation Historic Site: Sowing Truth and Change,” that “many if not most historic plantations acknowledge or interpret African diasporic histories and cultures that existed within these landscapes to varying degrees.” Read More