Reform in 19th-Century America

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Listen: Slate “Working” Podcast: How does a museum curator work LINK: https://slate.com/business/2016/05/working-how-does-a-museum-curator-work.html Read: Elliot, Mary and Jazmine Hughs, “We’ve Got to Tell the Unvarnished Truth,” New York Times, Aug. 19, 2019,  LINK:  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/19/magazine/history-slavery-smithsonian.html Due: Response Paper 5:   What assumptions about the lives of enslaved people does Mary Elliot (the museum curator interviewed in the podcast) want to challenge or complicate? How does she think physical objects can help the museum achieve her goal of challenging those assumptions?  Do you feel the objects Elliot highlights in the New York Times help tell the history of slavery? Why or why not? Which object stands out to you and why? How does the podcast and the New York Times article add to or complicate the information in the Crash Course videos? What, in the assignment, particularly stands out to you and why? (Such as what interests you, upsets you, confuses you, etc. There is not a wrong answer to this last question, as long as you answer it in your own words.)