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Cane River Creole National Historical Park and the Louisiana Office of State Parks Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Office of the Lieutenant Governor invite you to find out...
What are we saying?
Discovering How People of African Descent
are Interpreted at Louisiana Plantation Sites
May 2-3, 2008
LSU Rural Life Museum, Baton Rouge LA
Renowned speakers and facilitators will be featured at the two-day event, including:
Dr. John Michael Vlach, Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at George Washington University and author of Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
Dr. Stephen Small, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of Representations of Slavery: Race and Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums
Dr. Harvey Bakari, Director of African American Interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg
Thanks to a generous grant from the Lower Mississippi Delta Initiative, attendance at the symposium is free.
For more information, contact Peggy Scherbaum at (318) 356-8441 x200 or peggy_scherbaum@nps.gov
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