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  "text": "\"We've got to tell the unvarnished truth\"\n\nI went to the NMAACH recently. Had to see it one last time before our elected officials whitewash it, removing artifacts that represent \"improper ideology.\"\n\nHere are photos of some things I don't want disappeared.",
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        "alt": "Photo of a plaque welcoming visitors to the NMAACH titled \"Slavery and Freedom, 1400-1877. It reads \"Five hundred years ago, a new form of slavery transformed African, Europe, and the Americas. For the first time, people saw other human beings as commodities—things to be bought, sold, and exploited to make enormous profits. This system changed the world. The United States was created in this context, forged by slavery as well as a radical new concept, freedom. This is a shared story, a shared past, told through the lives of African Americans who helped form the nation.\" There's also a quote by John Hope Franklin, 2005, that reads \"We've got to tell the unvarnished truth.\"",
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        "alt": "Photo of one of many large plaques in the NMAACH, listing the names of ships transporting enslaved people, their country of origin, date of beginning of voyage, and how many enslaved people boarded and survived. One example: Gideon, The Netherlands, 11-28-1698, 528 boarded, 465 survived.",
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        "alt": "A diagram of the stowage of the British slave ship Brookes under the regulated slave trade. It shows an overwhelming number of human bodies stacked side by side in the lower deck, under and on shelves constructed with only 2 feet 7 inches between the beams and far less under the beams.\n",
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        "alt": "A photo of a bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson with hundreds of bricks, each one etched with the name of a child he fathered with an enslaved woman. All of these children became enslaved people.",
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  "createdAt": "2025-04-14T20:40:13.305Z"
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