National Slave Museum Imperiled

From The New York Times: FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — It’s been 10 years since L. Douglas Wilder, the nation’s first elected black governor, unveiled a plan to build the United States National Slavery Museum on 38 acres here. It was to be the only institution of its kind, housed in a soaring glass-and-travertine building and illuminated at night so that cars passing on I-95 could see the full-scale replica of a slave ship in its atrium.Today the land remains vacant and is drowning in tax bills.  Read the full story at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/arts/design/wilders-plan-for-slavery-museum-may-have-ended.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&emc=eta1&adxnnlx=1311262168-iGCOq9NZBJLqoD4oFfb9NQ

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