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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 148 Print image (37K) |
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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 148 Print image (37K) |
| 139 How is a state of mind created that makes it acceptable to treat a person like property? How do the echoes of slavery sound in our lifetime—attitudes and actions toward and between different racial groups. What can an individual do in his/her own life to improve things. As a federal entity, we cannot tell people what to think or do, but we hope we can encourage them to think about things they may have avoided due to that discomfort level. We need to be better at opening the discussion. We have experimented for over ten years to expand the story with training, different techniques of interpretation (including living history contracted from Morgan State University drama department), publications, and continued research. The change in interpretation has been a significant one, and one that ran counter to what many of our volunteers (who present 65% of the interpretation) learned when they first signed on in the 70s. We have started a change, and hope to see it accelerate with public support. We hope in a few years Dr. Loewen will be able to write of Hampton, as he did of Monticello, that he watched the tour become more and more honest. What Dr. Loewen mistook the failure of the |