America has quite a few slave plantation museums in the south, but we have yet to open a permanent slave ship museum, or a national museum dedicated to slave trade history (although the Amistad, which is a replica of the famous cargo ship used in the slave trade, is a close contender).

If there’s any issue that America needs to better understand and talk about, it’s the slave trade.  Not only did it touch the Thanksgiving story, but it has wounded us more than just about any other issue in our history.

Since Squanto learned to speak English because of his brush with the slave trade, and because his English is what made the 1621 feast possible, I would love to see a permanent floating slave ship museum right next to our beautiful Mayflower II at the Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts.

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Posted September 5, 2009 by Admin under Cultural

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