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America, slavery and how museums can help to heal fractured societies

Reflections: A woman visits the National Museum of African American History and Culture Image: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Lonnie Bunch
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fuzheado [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Silk lace and linen shawl given to Harriet Tubman by Queen Victoria Image: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charles L. Blockson
Bible belonging to Nat Turner Image: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Maurice A. Person and Noah and Brooke Porter
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