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IN 1985 THE VALENTINE MUSEUM, the city museum of Richmond, Virginia, embarked on a new interpretive agenda to examine previously unexplored aspects of the city's past. Part of that plan included a series of exhibitions on black history and race relations. In Bondage and Freedom: Antebellum Black Life in Richmond, Virginia, 1790-1860, curated by the authors, was the third exhibition in that series. It ran from February to November, 1988, and was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Along with the exhibition, the project produced a catalog, a 28-minute film, and a series of public programs that interpreted black life in Richmond before the Civil War. In Bondage and Freedom had a clear message: "Afro-Americans were central and essential to American development, not peripheral."' This was never more true than in Richmond, where African-Americans built |
